But that's the name of the prize: Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Call it by its name. The prize in Physics is the "No

But that's the name of the prize: Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Call it by its name. The prize in Physics is the "Nobel Prize if Physics", and so are the other ones. The difference is intentional. A self-respecting discipline starts its own prize instead of buying legitimacy. Computer Science has the Turing Award, not the ACM Prize in Computer Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel.