Under the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a prize amount may be divided between at most

two personsCorrect answerYour answerthree personsCorrect answerYour answerfour personsCorrect answerYour answerany number of personsCorrect answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B

Correct answer: B

The statutes say that in no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons.
That is a cap on persons, and it is why a discovery with a dozen contributors still produces at most three names.
Organisations are outside this arithmetic, and only the Peace Prize has ever gone to one.

Worth noting

The three-person cap is the reason large collaborations are so often left unrecognised, and it is a rule about the money rather than about the credit.

Concept: How many people may share a prize
Typical timeTypical: 50 s
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The rule this testsThe Nobel Prizes, and the one that is not one

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Under the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a prize amount may be divided between at most

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