Editing Nobel Prize (section)

=== 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|date=December 2024}} This has occurred twice: the 1931 Literature Prize awarded to [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], and the 1961 Peace Prize awarded to [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|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 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]]) was announced but before it could be presented.<ref name="Abrams9">[[#Abrams|Abrams]], p. 9</ref> 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.<ref name="cbc1003" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 October 2011 |title=Ralph Steinman Remains Nobel Laureate |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/press_releases_archive/2011/steinman.html |access-date=8 October 2012 |publisher=[[The Nobel Foundation]] |archive-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720112614/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/press_releases_archive/2011/steinman.html |url-status=live }}</ref>