U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'
<i>&quot;...Wu did not receive the Nobel prize for her contributions to the groundbreaking find.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s damn time these horribly unfair Nobel Prizes were grossly overhauled or scrapped altogether and replaced with something better.<p>Time and time again we hear of the Nobel Prize committee making both questionable and unfair decisions by failing to award deserving people and instead awarding the Prize on political grounds rather than merit, and or overlooking people who made 
significant contributions to a discovery such as Wu, or bypassing deserving mavericks who have upset the establishment but still deserve to be honored (Fred Hoyle for instance). The fact that Nobel Prize awards cannot be awarded posthumously is also an utter disgrace.<p>The Nobel Prize system is a bloody sham more reminiscent of an age of patronage than it was even suitable for the 20th Century let alone the 21st.<p>The way of fixing it would be for some other philanthropist to offer alternative awards based on a much fairer system.  The Nobels could then be easily undermined if an alternative prize system offered much higher prize money to Nobel winners for them not to accept their prizes after they were awarded. If nothing else, the publicly alone would bring the Nobels into disrepute once the wider world knew the reasons.<p>I&#x27;m well aware that rules governing the Nobel Prizes are fixed in stone by Alfred Nobel&#x27;s estate but if it wanted to then Sweden could easily legislate law to override this arcane unfair system.<p>It&#x27;s a good start that at least the US Postal Service is honoring Wu.