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Nobel Committee to decide on Steinman prize
Oct 3, 2011, 14:19 GMT
Stockholm - The Nobel Committee was on Monday deciding how to proceed after it emerged that Ralph M Steinman, one of the three scientists awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, had died, a spokeswoman said.
Ralph M Steinman was named along with two other scientists as a Medicine prize laureate for 2011 for research on the human immune system. Shortly after Monday's announcement, the Rockefeller University in New York confirmed his death at the age of 68.
Goran K Hansson, secretary general of the Nobel Committee, would issue a statement on how the committee would proceed, a spokeswoman told dpa.
According to the Nobel Committee statutes, a laureate must be alive when the prize is awarded, said Anders Baranyi, a former secretary of the Nobel Committee charged with awarding the physics prize.
Baranyi said he did not believe Steinman would receive the award posthumously.
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