In 1939 Claude Shannon won the "wrong" Nobel prize -- The Alfred Noble Prize award presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers [0]. It causes a lot of confusion. Claude Shannon never won a "real Nobel".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize

EDIT: typos

That's different local prize by the American society of civil engineers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize

Yes. That's the joke.

[party pooping] It would have been better delivery if you said "a Nobel prize" instead of "the".

Noble != Nobel

Ah my bad.

Still more of a Nobel Prize than the one for Economics.