Albert Einstein was essentially proven right when starlight was observed to be bent by the Sun’s gravity during an eclipse in 1919.  Since his work on General Relativity was published in 1915, Einstein's theory has never been proven wrong.  And while Einstein himself on more than one occasion expressed reservations about some of the more exotic implications of general relativity, in the end his work was proven, or accepted, to be correct.

Albert Einstein had previously published four articles in the Annalen der Physik scientific journal in 1905.  These Annus Mirabilis papers (from the Latin annus mīrābilis, "extraordinary year") created the foundation of modern physics and changed views on space, time, mass, and energy. 

For example, one of Einstein’s published papers in 1905 explained in precise detail how Brownian motion was a result of individual molecules and provided the first definitive proof that atoms and molecules actually exist.

Yet Albert Einstein received only one Nobel Prize – for the discovery of the photoelectric effect, another of those Annus Mirabilis papers, which, by the way, merely initiated the field of quantum mechanics.

It seems to me Albert Einstein is well-deserving of multiple posthumous Nobel Prizes for the discovery of relativity, the discovery of the equivalence of matter and energy, for the explanation that space-time is responsible for gravity, for the discovery of black holes, for the discovery of entanglement (1935), and yes, for the discovery of gravitational waves - all of which are integral parts of his work on relativity.

All the more remarkably, Einstein’s greatest work was accomplished essentially alone, while working as a clerk in the Berne, Switzerland patent office with support from a very few acquaintances and mathematicians.  He didn’t have billion-dollar laboratories and a thousand paid physicists, engineers, and technicians to support his discoveries.

A. Douglas Stone, in his book Einstein and the Quantum, convincingly argues that Einstein's work was worthy of four Nobel prizes.

Doesn’t Albert Einstein deserve recognition as probably the greatest scientist who ever lived?  Doesn’t the record for posterity need to be set straight to acknowledge that?

Unfortunately, the Nobel Prize rules state that they cannot be awarded posthumously.

However, precedents of sorts exist.  For example, in 2011 Canadian-born Ralph Steinman was one of three biologists who were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine, but he died days before the award was announced.  Officials at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences decided that, in this instance, the rules could be ignored.  And both Erik Axel Karlfeldt, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1931, and Dag Hammarskjöld, who won the Nobel peace prize in 1961, were awarded posthumous Nobel Prizes.

So it appears the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has in the past exercised the power and discretion to change or bend the rules governing posthumous eligibility.  I have in fact communicated this to the Administrator, Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.