posthumously

Every single time the rule is applied, somebody is posthumously denied this greatest of scientific distinctions.

You mean Kafka implored Brod, and /then/ he deplored him, posthumously...

It may very well happen posthumously, but that of course wouldn't be too useful to him by then.

Churchill ensured that Gandhi never received it while he was alive, and he couldn't get it posthumously.

That's part of the reason why it can't be awarded posthumously - the deceased are known for being unproductive.

As did Kenneth Arrow[0], Merton&Scholes[1] (Fisher Black had already died at that point, and they don't award it posthumously), and Aumann[2].

Even then, the recognition you deserve might only come posthumously, but that is irrelevant unless it is recognition that you seek.

The worst case scenario is that he will only be pardoned posthumously, ala Alan Turing.

Edit: There appears is a posthumously published book named Project Mars that says that.

It can even happen posthumously: Herman Melville was a nobody loser when he died.

All of her outstanding pull requests were merged posthumously.

Is it possible to knight someone posthumously?

It was first invented by Gauss, 160 years earlier, but not well known, "being published only posthumously and in neo-Latin".

This subgenre has since been posthumously renamed to "metallic metalcore" (seriously) in order to differentiate it from the melodic metalcore everyone now associates with the term.

Promotion to "completely trusted lieutenant" is only awarded posthumously.

It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent." I don't imagine anyone cares to do the posthumous intelligence checks.