నోబెల్ బహుమతి
విజ్ఞానం అనంతం. కాలము, దేశము, జాతి వంటి అవధులు దానికి వుండవు. అందుకే విజ్ఞాన ఖనులైన మహనీయులను మనం అన్ని విధాలుగా సత్కరించడం అవసరం. ఈ సత్కార్యాచరణ జరిపించాలనే సదుద్దేశంతో ఆల్ఫ్రెడ్‌ నోబెల్‌ తాను సంపాదించిన యావదాస్తితో 1900 సంలో నోబెల్‌ సంస్థలను స్థాపించి 1901 సం. నుండి నోబెల్‌ బహుమతి ప్రకటించి సత్కరించడం విశేషము .
నికోలా టెస్లా
Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marconi for radio in 1909, Thomas Edison and Tesla were mentioned as potential laureates to share the Nobel Prize of 1915 in a press dispatch, leading to one of several Nobel Prize controversies. Some sources have claimed that due to their animosity toward each other neither was given the award, despite their enormous scientific contributions, and that each sought to minimize the other one's achievements and right to win the award, that both refused to ever accept the award if the other received it first, and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it.
In the following events after the rumors, neither Tesla nor Edison won the prize (although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915, and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 in 1937).
Earlier, Tesla alone was rumored to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize of 1912. The rumored nomination was primarily for his experiments with tuned circuits using high-voltage high-frequency resonant transformers.