[0ren]

I find it interesting that they awarded the prize to Shapley after Gale's death[0]. I always thought that there was some rule that prevented them from awarding the Physics Nobel Prize to Aharonov after Bohm died[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov–Bohm_effect

[yairchu]

You are correct, Nobel prizes are not awarded to the dead, unless they die just after announcing the prize and before the ceremony (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/03/nobel-prize-aw...). Gandhi was denied the prize for this reason.

In this case, it is simply the post title being misleading, as it's not the Nobel prize these folks won, but the Nobel memorial prize in economics, which is a relatively new prize which is not part of the 5 Nobel prizes which had been given by Nobel's estate for more than a century.

Edit: oh I see they didn't reward a dead in this case, misread your comment..

[pranjalv123]

Several Nobels have been given out after a collaborator's death - probably the most famous being Watson and Crick's prize four years after Rosalind Frankin's death.