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Nobel Nominee's

Prester John

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I think i have the answer to this one but does anyone know if someone who is nominated for a Nobel Prize would know that they have been nominated?

Reason for asking is there seem to be a lot of Nobel Nominees out there and i was under the impression that nominees names are a secret for at least 50 years.

PJ
 
Prester John said:
I think i have the answer to this one but does anyone know if someone who is nominated for a Nobel Prize would know that they have been nominated?
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Yes, they are notified. Many recipients have publicly told tales about how they got a phone call or a personal visit from a guy with a Scandanavian accent who told them that they were being seriously considered for the award.
 
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Brown said:
Yes, they are notified. Many recipients have publicly told tales about how they got a phone call or a personal visit from a guy with a Scandanavian accent who told them that they were being seriously considered for the award.
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Austin Pendleton doesn't do Scandanavian accents. ;)
 
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hgc said:
Austin Pendleton doesn't do Scandanavian accents.
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That's okay. None of those guys at Princeton (except Judd Hirsch, maybe, and some of the extras) had a New Jersey accent.
 
Re reading, you say recipients were told, what about people who have just been nominated but not actually recieved.
PJ
 
AFAIK there's no official notification. However, sometimes the person doing the nominating will tell the nominee.

If you are actually being seriously considered, then it will become pretty damn obvious - you're invited to Sweden to give talks, a member of the nobel committe visits your research group etc. This happened last year to Anton Zeilinger - a guy I worked with in Vienna. I went for lunch with him and the lady from the committee who had invited herself to the group. It was somewhat interesting to grill her on the whole process, though this was one question I didnt ask...

However I know of one example - Bill Phillips (laser cooling) - who, if you believe him, received the prize as a complete surprise...

Oh - and that year Phillips won it with Cohen-Tannoudji and Chu. A few months before the announcement I was at a conference in Germany about to go visit Cohen-Tannoudji for a week, and some swedish physics students insisted that CT was going to win it. They really wanted me to tell him, but I chickened out (told him after the fact). How the hell they knew is beyond me...
 
Well based on my personal experience,...

err, um, I think I read in a Richard Feynman book that he knew he was being considered.
 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...nm/20031007/od_nm/nobel_medicine_mansfield_dc

NOTTINGHAM, England (Reuters) - The British scientist who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his ground-breaking work on imaging internal organs thought it was a joke when his wife told him the news on Monday.

"I didn't expect anything like this at all. If someone just told you, you had won the Nobel Prize I think the reaction of 90 percent of the population would be 'yeah, go on pull the other one," Peter Mansfield, of Nottingham University, told Reuters.
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My winning of the Nobel prize was kept so secret that the general public still doesn't know it happened.
 
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