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Re:AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize by SturgeonsLaw on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:18PM (#32947234)
Thanks for supplying the extra detail as a counterpoint to my flippancy. I was aware that the Nobel Prize for Economics was "not a real Nobel Prize" but didn't know the Peace Prize was also quite separate from the science based awards.

It does make sense though, seeing as the scientific awards are generally awarded based on actual breakthroughs, whereas the political ones are, let's say, fuzzier.

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Re:AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize by Dylan16807 on Friday September 23, 2022 @06:19PM (#32957769)
> didn't know the Peace Prize was also quite separate from the science based awards.

It's a bit more complicated than that. The committees for Physics and Chemistry (and Economics) are colocated at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Medicine is elsewhere, as is Literature. Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature work together for final approval. Peace is completely on its own.

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