
PolicyOctober 4, 2017
It's Time to Rethink the Nobel Prizes
They can go to a maximum of three people, and they can't be awarded posthumously, but that wasn't part of Alfred Nobel's original vision
Brian Keating is an astrophysicist and professor at the University of California San Diego. He and his collaborators have built numerous cosmic microwave background experiments at the South Pole, Antarctica and in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Keating is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is the author of Losing the Nobel Prize, to be published by W.W. Norton in April 2018.

It's Time to Rethink the Nobel Prizes
They can go to a maximum of three people, and they can't be awarded posthumously, but that wasn't part of Alfred Nobel's original vision