Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

I can see the point: if I’d done potentially Nobel-worthy work, I’d rather be honored while I’m alive—after I’m dead, they might as well award it to someone who can still appreciate it.

In theory, the Nobel's prize money is meant to support the winners in future endeavours. So not much point if they're dead. IIRC Nobel didn't really intend it to be about fame and glory, it was meant to be supporting development in those fields the Nobels were allocated to.

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Yeah, they can do what they want with no oversight that I know of, but the Nobel Prize is considered the holy grail of world wide scientific research, while it is very skewed in its selection process and its results.