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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 17:36:12 UTC Robert McNees

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   • Tom Levenson

   @tomlevenson They could also rectify it for Rubin. They prohibition on posthumous awards wasn’t codified until 1974, and three such awards have been given out anyway, one as recently as 2012. It’s all completely within their control.
   https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/should-death-stop-the-nobel

   • Tom Levenson (tomlevenson@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 17:36:17 UTC Tom Levenson

     I'm watching this as I prepare to talk about writing/making profile stories, and it strikes me again that the Nobel Committee has an opportunity they won't take to right one of their most egregious wrongs.

     https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007768850/the-silent-pulse-of-the-universe.html?playlistId=video/op-docs

     Jocelyn Bell Burnell deserves her share of any prize for the discovery of pulsars. She was jobbed of that in 1974. She's still alive, which means that by their own rules the Nobel people could rectify that error.

     They should. Now.