Can you name the Nobel Prize categories?

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Nobel Prize Categories Quiz

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Published: March 27th, 2009
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Tags: prize, Nobel Prize, category, nobel

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	jawa88:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 18:33 GMT	1 point
	This was a pretty cool quiz, forgot medicine though =

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	dashoff:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 18:40 GMT	-1 points
	Got them all by knowing John Nash won a Nobel Prize. At first I guessed math, but I suppose econ makes more sense.

	Delphi:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	5 points
	Got the rest then remembered Economics from watching too much West Wing. I knew it would come in useful!

	lumbre:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 19:07 GMT	11 points
	The "Nobel Prize of Mathematics" is the Fields Medal.

	klogg:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	1 point
	Still can't believe Dubya was nominated for the peace prize. Also, I was surprised when I found out a few years ago that Einstein's medal was mainly due to his work with the photoelectric effect, not STR.

	Jesse:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 19:24 GMT	0 points
	there's a star by economics because it's a FAKE nobel prize, using "in nobel's memory" to tag along with the real nobel prizes.

davidr:

Mar 27th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT

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@klogg: Nomination for a Nobel Prize doesn't mean an awful lot: each year, about a hundred people are nominated. Nomination forms are sent to a fairly large group of people and they can nominate anyone they want. The fact that a Norwegian politician nominated Bush and Blair (and then made this public) says more about him than it does about the Nobel Peace Prize.

	klogg:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 22:12 GMT	4 points
	ah, gotcha.

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	yocoy:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 00:14 GMT	2 points
	If you just read the four bullet points under "Can you name the Nobel Prize categories?" you would know what the asterisk is for. The fourht line explains it.

	brianc:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 00:45 GMT	2 points
	@Turakki: The fields medal is just called that, it has no relation at all (besides being awarded every 4 years, and some other differences). The myth is that Nobel's wife cheated on him with a mathematician, so that's why there's no prize for Mathematics.

	Ed:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 00:48 GMT	2 points
	@John2 The Award in Economics is awarded by the Bank of Sweden, not the Nobel foundation. It's called something like the the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics even though its not a true "Nobel"

	shel99:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 01:34 GMT	2 points
	I tried every variation of Biology I could think of -- Bioscience, Life Science, Genetics, etc... didn't even occur to me that the proper term was Medicine :(

	Torch:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 02:16 GMT	-2 points
	krogg: Einstein received the NP for his work on the PEE, but really it was for Relativity. The problem was that there was no proof and nobody understood it though they were sure he was correct. He was due and his work on the PEE was good enough to get him one.

	Torch:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 02:16 GMT	-3 points
	Oops, sorry klogg.

	RavenEleni:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 03:10 GMT	-3 points
	@shel99 - yes us biologists are cheated out of them, unless we discover soomething of significance to human health, bummer, lol

	davidr:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 08:47 GMT	2 points
	@raveneleni: The prize is actually called the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and there is, as far as I'm aware, no requirement that the physiology be human. There's also a lot of scope for biochemists to win the chemistry prize — for example, the 2008 prize was awarded to the discoverers of the green fluorescent protein (GFP).

	Joe_Ball:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 10:55 GMT	2 points
	As I remember, the legend goes that there's no Mathematics prize because Nobel considered it of no -direct- benefit to humanity? Mathematicians can win Nobels (like Nash), but they must apply their work.

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	jdmerkel:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 14:30 GMT	-1 points
	I don't mean there aren't nominations but when it is something that you can nominate yourself for then it sort of loses all meaning to say you were nominated.

	Joe_Ball:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 18:56 GMT	-1 points
	@Joe D: I think there's nominations, followed by some kind of shortlist, but the shortlist is usually a closely guarded secret, so no one should be aware of the fact that they were a Nobel shortlisted 'nominee', if that makes sense. In other words, I agree.

	RunnDMC:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 19:10 GMT	11 points
	They forgot the Nobel prize for evil.

	davidr:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 20:43 GMT	3 points
	@Joe D: You can nominate yourself but self-nominations are automatically rejected. The Nobel committee keeps the nomination lists secret for fifty years (except for the winners, obviously) but somebody who makes a nomination is free to say publicly who they nominated. This is what happened with Bush and Blair.

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	davidr:	Mar 29th, 2009 at 13:25 GMT	5 points
	@Ely: Economics, maybe, but the Peace Prize comes from Nobel's original bequest.

	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 01:38 GMT	2 points
	great one

	thefinestmuffins:	Apr 13th, 2009 at 01:52 GMT	-2 points
	@Louise: Yes, thank you, West Wing. Is Bartlet the most famous fake Nobel Prize Winner?

	BonesLover:	Jun 20th, 2009 at 21:37 GMT	-2 points
	This was a really cool quiz, -West Wing was great

	trishtea:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 10:53 GMT	-1 points
	@thefinestmuffins: yes I would imagine so - and far more famous than most real Nobel Prize winners too!

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 01:50 GMT	2 points
	The legend behind the lack of a Nobel Prize for mathematics was that Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician who, had there been such a prize, would have been a likely candidate for it - so in order to prevent the possibility of him winning it he decided not to award one. Something tells me that's probably not true though! When the list of nominees up to 1955 was released a few years ago it was revealed that Adolf Hitler (in 1939!), Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin were all nominated, which pretty much sums up how much a nomination counts for.

	h_a_eriksson:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 00:51 GMT	-3 points
	=) Try this out: http://www.sporcle.com/games/h_a_eriksson/multiple_nobel

	nucleolus101:	Dec 31st, 2009 at 18:22 GMT	-3 points
	@h_a_eriksson you cant advertise your quiz on somebody elses

	Splodge:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 09:53 GMT	2 points
	Haha, I punched in 5 of them in about 15 seconds and then spent 45 seconds inexplicably failing to type in Chemistry - the one discipline I actually claim to know something about!

	stjaernstoft:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 16:09 GMT	3 points
	Since I'm from Sweden, and learned about Nobel early in life, the hardest part was to remember how to spell "medicin" with an e ("medicine") and "ekonomi" as "economics" (not "economy.")

	Dr_Corndog:	Jun 20th, 2011 at 19:31 GMT	-1 points
	I can tell you what there's NOT a Nobel Prize for: math! The injustice, that there should be a Nobel Prize for economics but not for math!