University says Nobel Prize winner has died

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press

University says Nobel Prize winner has died
By KARL RITTER – 3 hours ago

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Rockefeller University in New York says Ralph Steinman, co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine, has died.

It says Steinman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four years ago and died on Sept. 30, three days before the announcement.

Nobel Prizes are typically not given out posthumously. Nobel committee member Goran Hansson said the Nobel committee didn't know Steinman was dead when it chose him as a winner and was looking through its regulations.

Steinman shared the 10 million-kronor ($1.5 million) award with American Bruce Beutler and French scientist Jules Hoffmann.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iklEU6iZQNaX81iXFqOQBJgG3ttQ?docId=5dd680b1d7dd4e8bbd5996775080ea24

[AngryAmish]

1. He's just pinin'

[Historic NY]

2. Shared award for a life's work in helping save others...the award should still stand.

Someday someone will discover the cure for cancer.

[undeterred]

3. Cancer kills Nobel physician before hears of prize

Source: Reuters

STOCKHOLM | Mon Oct 3, 2011 12:39pm EDT

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.

Calling it "bittersweet" news, colleagues of Canadian-born Ralph Steinman at New York's Rockefeller University said he had prolonged his own life with a new therapy based on his prize-winning research into the body's immune system.

But the 68-year-old physician, who joked last week with his family about hanging on until the annual prize announcement, died on Friday after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He never knew his life's work had been crowned with the highest accolade science can bestow.

"We wanted him to be here for this," said his daughter Alexis Steinman, 34. "We were like 'OK Dad, I know things aren't going well but the Nobel, they are going to announce it next Monday'. And he's like: 'I know I have got to hold out for that. They don't give it to you if you have passed away. "'I got to hold out for that.'"


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-nobel-medicine-idUSTRE79213M20111003

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Thank you for a great contribution. :applause:

[Historic NY]

4. Medicine prize to Ralph Steinman stands even thou he died - Breaking News

Nobel Foundation: Medicine prize to Ralph Steinman stands even though he has died - AP