The astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble never won the Nobel Prize because he died unexpectedly, at the age of almost 64, on September 28, 1953, due to a cerebral thrombosis. His long time family physician assured (!) his wife, Grace Hubble, that the death had been ``instantaneous and without pain'' (Christianson 1995 -- hereafter CHR).
Is there a Nobel Prize for Astronomy? No, there is not! Hubble would have been the first one to brake the old tradition and to change the statutes of the award, as I show below. In the light of this possibility, one might also wonder what Hubble would win the Prize for, given his many scientific achievements.
But before that, in the next section, I describe another first rank award series, also under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, namely, the Crafoord Prize. This Prize includes astronomy in the list of awards. In the final section, I comment on the story behind the Nobel award to Hubble and speculate on the choice that would be made by the Nobel Committee, from among his many fundamental investigations in astronomy, as the Prize statement.