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1 Economics 13x

2 peace 7x

3 Science fiction 6x

4 Medicine 6x

5 a Tony 6x

6 the Cy Young Award 5x

7 Physics 5x

8 Death of a Salesman 5x

9 the Pillsbury Bake-Off 5x

10 Walt Disney 4x

11 the Pritzker Prize 4x

12 the NAACP 4x

13 the Congressional Medal of Honor 4x

14 Mother Teresa 4x

15 literature 4x

16 Clint Eastwood 4x

17 Canada 4x

18 Bob Fosse 4x

19 a Grammy 4x

20 the Nobel Peace Prize 4x

21 the Oscar 4x

22 Andrei Sakharov 4x

23 Charles Lindbergh 4x

24 Winston Churchill 3x

25 The Wright Brothers 3x

26 the Purple Heart 3x

27 the Pulitzer Prize 3x

28 the Nobel Prize 3x

29 the Golden Globes 3x

30 the Civil War 3x

31 the Caldecott Medal 3x

32 Sinclair Lewis 3x

33 Roger Ebert 3x

34 Robert Frost 3x

35 Ray Charles 3x

36 Planned Parenthood 3x

37 Meryl Streep 3x

38 Mathematics 3x

39 Mark Twain 3x

40 Linus Pauling 3x

41 Lech Walesa 3x

42 Katharine Hepburn 3x

43 Johnny Carson 3x

44 Jane Addams 3x

45 Helen Hayes 3x

46 Garrison Keillor 3x

47 Fred Astaire 3x

48 Evita 3x

49 Edith Head 3x

50 Columbia 3x

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Robert Engle & Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data

Economics

It's the only Nobel Prize that can be awarded to an organization or institution rather than an individual

peace

The Hugo Award for this type of literature honors Hugo Gernsback, who coined the term

Science fiction

For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel

Medicine

First awarded in 1947, its trophy includes the masks of comedy & tragedy

a Tony

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Economics (13) peace (7) Science fiction (6) Medicine (6) the Cy Young Award (5) Physics (5) Death of a Salesman (5) Walt Disney (4) the Pritzker Prize (4) the NAACP (4) the Congressional Medal of Honor (4) Mother Teresa (4) literature (4) Clint Eastwood (4) Canada (4) Bob Fosse (4) a Tony (4) a Grammy (4) Winston Churchill (3) The Wright Brothers (3) the Purple Heart (3) the Pulitzer Prize (3) the Pillsbury Bake-Off (3) the Nobel Prize (3) the Golden Globes (3) the Civil War (3) the Caldecott Medal (3) Sinclair Lewis (3) Roger Ebert (3) Robert Frost (3)