Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: Satyendra Nath Bose died in 1974. It is against the rules of the > Noble award to issue this prize to a dead man, but such an award has been > done under unusual circumstances. >
Only by accident. They did not realize the poor fellow had died. That happened last year. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/03/nobel-prize-officials-dead-scientist - Jed