At the 2006 Mojo awards, where Bert received the Merit prize, Elton John paid tribute by recalling how he and Bernie Taupin used to listen to Bert Jansch albums in their musical infancy.
There remains scope for the Yorkshireman to end the year with the European Order of Merit prize which so narrowly eluded him 12 months ago, though by Willett's own admission the scaling of heights even close to what transpired at Augusta National in April is proving tricky.
Elite scientists in the field were defined as the best-funded or most-cited scientists; those who hold the most patents; members of the National Academy of Sciences; and early- and middle-career scientists who showed great potential, as demonstrated by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) MERIT award, an early-career prize, or a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator position.
His 1958 novel, "Things Fall Apart," has sold more than 10 million copies, and he has also won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction and the Nigerian National Merit Award.
One shouldn't assume that she's already done the only sort of thing she ever will to merit this prize, or that she will only be honored as a child.
I am of course sad for the Afghan feminist Sima Samar, the Chinese dissident Hu Jia, and the Colombian Piedad Cordoba, all of whom also merit the prize.
You could argue that — as a merit-based prize — it's an award as much as it's a windfall, and as a responsible child, you feel a responsibility to save your parents as much money as possible.
Jury and audience members sometimes differ on who merits first prize in music competitions.
(The dead winners, as Macy Halford notes, were Erik Axel Karlfeldt, for literature in 1931, and Dag Hammarskjöld for peace in 1961. Is it a coincidence that they were both Swedes?) The floor is open for posthumous suggestions, though settling the fights that would surround an all-time, dead-or-alive Nobel list might merit a Peace Prize all its own.
