Foundation will award prize posthumously
(NEWSER) - Earlier today, the Nobel team announced this year’s winners for medicine ; hours later, it emerged that one of the three intended recipients, immune researcher Ralph Steinman, has been dead for three days, the BBC reports. "The news is bittersweet," said the president of Rockefeller University, where Steinman worked, "as we also learned this morning from Ralph's family that he passed a few days ago after a long battle with cancer." More»
