>Has this ever happened before in Nobel history? In recent years the nobel committee has been grouping unrelated prizes in the same field. For example the par

>Has this ever happened before in Nobel history? In recent years the nobel committee has been grouping unrelated prizes in the same field. For example the parasitology prize a few years ago for treating two different parasite diseases (roundworm/malaria). I think its a good thing. It takes two similar discoveries, neither of which are big enough to warrant a solo prize and combines them to give credit to a field which has made advances. I was working in a parasitology department at the time and people were losing their minds about how awesome it was that the field was acknowledged on a world stage.