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by x3c 2123 days ago
For me, the most notable absence is Gandhi for Nobel for peace.
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He effectively won in 1948. They don't do posthumous awards, so they abstained from giving out the prize that year, stating directly that: "there was no suitable living candidate".

And he didn't get one a decade prior because he was reportedly a tad racist, giving other candidates the edge.

Technically this is a list of top greatest scientists who never won a Nobel Prize.
and Kissinger won.. go figure..

But I digress..