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.
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