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Unlike the highly politicised Literature and Peace awards, the science Nobels rarely cause controversy. The 2020 science awardees are all thoroughly deserving winners. Several were legends, long before the awards were announced.
Nevertheless, there are question-marks about the way the prizes work. The awards are usually made decades after the work. Major contributors have often passed on, and since the terms of the bequest specify awards cannot be posthumous, their contributions are not recognised.
This happened with the physics prize in 2020. Stephen Hawking and Amal Raychaudhuri made massive contributions to the work on black holes for which Roger Penrose received the
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