Alfred Nobel's will provided for prizes in

physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and economicsCorrect answerYour answerphysics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peaceCorrect answerYour answerphysics, chemistry, mathematics, literature and peaceCorrect answerYour answerphysics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace and economicsCorrect answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B

Correct answer: B

The will of 27 November 1895 named five fields: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.
Economics was not among them and was added by a different body seventy-three years later.
Mathematics has never had a Nobel Prize at all.

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Five fields, and the two wrong ones people reach for are economics and mathematics. Holding the will's own list settles both at once.

Concept: The prizes Nobel's will created
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The rule this testsThe Nobel Prizes, and the one that is not one

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