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    There have been six Nobel Prize Laurates that decided to decline their awards. Who were they?

    Question #52861. Asked by peasypod. (Dec 03 04 7:20 AM)


    mibmob

    		Pasternak, Satre, Axel, Kuhn, Butenandt, Le Duc Tho.

    Dec 03 04, 10:07 AM
    peasypod

    		Mibby, I'll give you 5/6 of a yay. You got em' all except Boris Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature. ("Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the Prize")

    This Richard Axel dude won it for discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system, this year.

    [Dec 03 04 3:25 PM] peasypod writes:

    Ok, recovering my composure....

    It's Gerhard Domagk, the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine that you missed....

    I need stronger coffee.

    Dec 03 04, 3:21 PM
    mibmob

    		It was his middle name I wrote down first - the name should have been Erik Axel Karlflelt. He declined for poetry in 1918

    Dec 04 04, 10:20 AM
    peasypod

    		Ok, yes, I have found a few sites telling me he declined the award in 1918 but gained it posthumously in 1931.

    This is the "other" site where I constructed the question from.

    http://nobelprize.org/help/faq/

    Dec 04 04, 5:13 PM

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