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贾庆文 1. 中国邮政储蓄绿卡号：6221884630001875336 2. 中国农业银行卡号：622848 0270209399814 3. 中国建设银行卡号：4367 4222 2001 1107 383 邮编：271000 通信地址：山东泰安二中英语教研室 手机email： jiaqingwen1967@163.com 身份证号人死贡献在，理应获奖；规则即规则，不容违背；受奖前辞世，终觉遗憾；波折后获奖，告慰亡灵。 /2011/10/04/science/04nobel.html?sq=nobel%20prizest=csescp=2pagewanted=printOne of 3 Chosen for Nobel in Medicine Died Days Ago By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and NICHOLAS WADE [1]When a representative of the Nobel Foundation could not reach Dr. Ralph M. Steinman by telephone Monday to deliver the thrilling news that he had been awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his breakthrough work in immunology, he sent him an e-mail about the honor. [2]But Dr. Steinman would never see the message nor learn of the prize. He died of pancreatic cancer on Friday, three days before the phone call from the Nobel committee. He had been battling the highly deadly disease for four years, using a treatment he devised to try to prolong his life, essentially turning his body into an extension of his research. [3]However, Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded posthumously. And so the Nobel committee, which had believed Dr. Steinman to be alive, faced a quandary. On Monday morning, one of Dr. Steinman’s daughters, Alexis, saw the e-mail from the Nobel Foundation and contacted Rockefeller University in New York, where her father had worked. The president of the university, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, immediately called the chairman of the Nobel Prize committee to inform him. [4]Then the committee, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, scrambled to figure out what to do. As heartless as it might seem, would the prize for Dr. Steinman have to be revoked? “This is a unique situation — Steinman died hours before the decision was made,” Goran Hansson, secretary of the Nobel committee for physiology and medicine, told Swedish Radio News after the situation came to light. “News of his death was not made public. We had no idea, nor did they know at his place of work