Why was Stephen Hawking never awarded a Nobel Prize?
Pioneering scientist Stephen Hawking was known for his 1975 'Hawking radiation' paper which stated black holes "glow". However, the effect hasn't been directly observed so far while Nobel Prizes are awarded only for experimentally verified research. British physicist Peter Higgs, who predicted the "God particle" Higgs boson in 1960s, received the Physics Nobel in 2013 only after CERN confirmed it.