Jane Goodall should get the Nobel Peace Prize (even though she is deceased):

[applegrove]

Yes yes yes Goodall for the Nobel.

— P. Inglish (@gmpinglish.bsky.social) 2025-10-03T15:55:42.773Z

[struggle4progress]

1. Ineligible, being deceased

[applegrove]

3. Damn.

[hlthe2b]

9. Not totally true: 1961 Nobel Peace Prize posthumously awarded to Dag Hamarskjold--

The Nobel Committee allows for posthumous nominations and awards, but there are specific rules. If a nominee passes away after the nomination deadline but before the award is announced, they can still receive the prize. However, if a nominee dies before being nominated, they cannot be awarded the prize posthumously. There have been several instances where the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to individuals who were deceased at the time of the award announcement, such as Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961 and Ralph Bunche in 1977.

We cannot know that Jane Goodall was not nominated. While perhaps unlikely, if she were nominated before her death, she could be awarded the prize.

[struggle4progress]

11. Here's what the website actually says:

Work produced by a person since deceased shall not be considered for an award. If, however, a prizewinner dies before he has received the prize, then the prize may be presented.

https://www.nobelprize.org/about/statutes-of-the-nobel-foundation/#par4

[hlthe2b]

12. Yes. How is that inconsistent with what I wrote? It is NOT.

IF (and we cannot know) Jane Goodall (or anyone else) was nominated before her death, she COULD still receive it. "Work produced before death," since no one produces work AFTER death. Thus, the reason Dag Hammarskjold was eligible.

[struggle4progress]

13. If announced as winner before death but dies before award, the prize is still awarded

but cannot become winner post-mortem

[hlthe2b]

15. Again, it has been prior. It is all in how you interpret what makes NO sense

"Limited to 'work produced before death"... Please DO tell me how one produces work after death. Maybe work findings released AFTER the nomination...

Once again, Dag Hammarskjold and another who won the Economics prize previously listed--both posthumously.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Too late. They are not awarded posthuously, except for the first Economics prize (as far as I know). . . . nt

[applegrove]

5. Did not know that. Maybe they could give it to the chimps who accepted

her snooping years ago.

[dem4decades]

6. I think they may make an exception if someone we know dies.

World peace would have a much better chance.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. First Economics prize?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Memorial_Prize_laureates_in_Economic_Sciences

Looks like one winner died 4 years later, and one 25 years later.

I know that if someone dies after the announcement, but before the ceremony, they still get it (and am fairly sure that's happened, but I don't know to whom).

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. I seem to be mistaken. Thank you.

One prize was awarded in 2011 because the committee was unaware the recipient had recently died:

Montreal-born scientist Dr. Ralph Steinman will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, despite his death three days earlier.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/montreal-born-doctor-gets-posthumous-nobel-honour-1.824238

Posthumous nominations

Although posthumous nominations are not presently permitted, individuals who died in the months between their nomination and the decision of the prize committee were originally eligible to receive the prize.[citation needed] This has occurred twice: the 1931 Literature Prize awarded to Erik Axel Karlfeldt, and the 1961 Peace Prize awarded to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. Since 1974, laureates must be thought alive at the time of the October announcement. There has been one laureate, William Vickrey, who in 1996 died after the prize (in Economics) was announced but before it could be presented.[61] On 3 October 2011, the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were announced; however, the committee was not aware that one of the laureates, Ralph M. Steinman, had died three days earlier. The committee was debating about Steinman's prize, since the rule is that the prize is not awarded posthumously.[9] The committee later decided that as the decision to award Steinman the prize "was made in good faith", it would remain unchanged, and the prize would be awarded.[62]

I read something recently that I have misremembered but somehow it lead me to making the statement. In my defense, I did state I was not completely certain. Thank you for correcting me

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Thanks - it is interesting about the "awarded in good faith" bit

which does make sense - if they've announced it, and then someone tells them "he died 2 days ago!", you can see they'd not want to pile things on top of the family by saying "well, we're taking our award back" too.

[malaise]

4. This is fine

[hlthe2b]

7. Yes. I've been thinking this too.

I'm sure that would infuriate the toxic orange menace, but other than Pope Francis, I don't know offhand who else could garner support with the least valid argument against the award.

[ananda]

10. Works for me. Both her and Greta Thunberg.

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