Ha! Touche.
The whole thing is rigged and the Nobel Prize Committee are a law unto themselves. They never gave Mendelev anything but Obama got one just for bring the first black president. They gave a Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger. No idea how that even got past the first vetting...
There's a chap called Stanislas Liebler who keeps getting nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics and nominated for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.