Nobelitis

== English == === Alternative forms === Nobel-itis, nobelitis === Etymology === From Nobel +‎ -itis. === Noun === Nobelitis (uncountable) (humorous or derogatory) An overriding or obsessive desire to win a Nobel Prize. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nobelitis. (humorous or derogatory) Grandiosity or hubris in a Nobel laureate. 2011, J. L. Granatstein, "Gouzenko to Gorbachev: Canada’s Cold War", Canadian Military Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011, page 49: After all, it had worked for Lester Pearson, had it not? Did not the Peace Prize help him become Liberal leader and then prime minister? ‘Nobelitis,’ Canadians called it, and not in an unkindly way. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nobelitis. (humorous or derogatory) The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise. ==== Synonyms ==== Nobel disease