Early Death
Suffering from chronic liver problems, Ramsey developed jaundice after an abdominal operation and died on 19 January 1930 at Guy's Hospital in London at the age of 26.
The Decision Analysis Society annually awards the Frank P. Ramsey Medal to recognise substantial contributions to decision theory and its application to important classes of real decision problems.
He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge; his father (1867 - 1954) and mother (1875 - 1927) are buried in the same plot.
Ramsey’s literary remains (Nachlass) were acquired by Nicholas Rescher for the Archives of Scientific Philosophy and the University of Pittsburgh. This Ramsey collection contains only a few letters but a great many drafts of papers and book chapters, some still unpublished.
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