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According to a January 2005 entry, Otto Stern was the only Nobel Prize winner to receive a prize after his death.
Well, it just ain't so.
According to http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069634/Otto-Stern:
" German-born scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1943 for his development of the molecular beam as a tool for studying the characteristics of molecules and for his measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton." He died in 1969. Ergo, he was alive when he received his award.
According to one of the Nobel Committee's FAQs on their own website:
"Is it possible to nominate someone for a posthumous Nobel Prize?
No, it is not. Previously, a person could be awarded a prize posthumously if he/she had already been nominated (before February 1 of the same year), which was true of Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931) and Dag Hammarskjöld (Nobel Peace Prize, 1961). Effective from 1974, the prize may only go to a deceased person to whom it was already awarded (usually in October) but who had died before he/she could receive the Prize on December 10 (William Vickrey, 1996 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel). See also par. 4 of the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation."
The story of Otto Stern is one of the oddest ones in science. During the second World War, he was believed to have survived and go on to further glory for his work. However, upon his death in 1969, it soon became known that the man believed to have been Otto Stern was actually his brother, Heinrich Stern, and that Otto Stern had actually died during the early years of the war. Heinrich had assumed Otto's identity in mid-1941, with the full knowledge and complicity of Otto's wife and close friends, to get out of the German army, because he deeply feared that they would lose the war and he would either be killed or eventually prosecuted for war crimes.
As to the fact, the Nobel had been largely awarded for work done prior to Otto's death, and for that reason, it is considered to be the only case where the Nobel has been awarded to someone posthumously, although that wasn't known until nearly 30 years later.
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