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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?
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