AHC: POTUS who has won a Nobel Prize *not* for Peace

The most likely category is Literature; after all, a Prime Minister of the UK won that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_as_writer

Maybe TR gets it for his total literary *oeuvre*--Winning of the West, nature works, Autobiography, etc.--in a TL where he eventually gets his "third cup of coffee" and the Committee wants to suck up to him.

What about Economics? (Yes, I know that technically, "there no Nobel Prize in economics" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economics-nobel-isnt-really-a-nobel/ but that's what the Swedish National Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is commonly called...) I could see Paul Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Douglas winning that for the Cobb-Douglas production function, among many other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb–Douglas_production_function But he was probably too far to the left (despite his anti-Communist hawkishness) to ever be on a national ticket.

The "hard" sciences? Well, if a terrorist attack between 2009 and 2013 killed everyone in the line of presidential succession above Steven Chu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu

Any other ideas?
 
The most likely category is Literature; after all, a Prime Minister of the UK won that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_as_writer
Maybe the other Winston Churchill could get one as well and be elected POTUS?

In Canadian politics, Iggy could get something for his work in philosophy. Of course, if we get rid of the eligibility clause, he could be president (deciding to stay in America instead of moving back to Canada).

Robert Reich could work for economics. If he stays as his Third Way self, he would have a good shot at winning at some point (but Sandersite Reich could also work).

Rush Holt's physics background could also get him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

RFK Jr. had a degree in economics, although the Peace Prize would be awarded to who could get me the fastest out of that timeline. :p
 
Perhaps Samuel Clemens could get into politics later in life? And then one of his novels could get the Literature prize as a political sop of sorts?
 
Perhaps Grant lives to a ripe old age and writes his memoirs in his 80s - assuming they meet with the same acclaim as they did OTL, that may work. On the other hand, if one removes his declining health and his financial difficulties, he may not have written at all.
 
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