Prizes like that are prestigious because of history and because everybody knows about them. I don't think the money attached to the prize has as big of an effec

Prizes like that are prestigious because of history and because everybody knows about them. I don't think the money attached to the prize has as big of an effect as the history. For a concrete example, the Fields Medal is better known than the Abel Prize despite the fact that it only comes with $15,000 to the Abel Prize's ~$1m.