| 100% | BOHR | 4 | Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Niels |
| 76% | BOHR | 4 | Danish, Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| 64% | BOHR | 4 | Niels ___, Danish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 |
| 59% | GOEPPERT | 8 | Maria __ Mayer Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| 56% | NIELSBOHR | 9 | Nobel-winning Danish physicist |
| 55% | BOHR | 4 | Niels ___, award-winning Danish physicist |
| 54% | QED | 3 | 2001 Peter Parnell stage play about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman |
| 54% | UREY | 4 | Nobel Prize winning physical chemist Harold ___ |
| 53% | HEISENBERG | 10 | Werner ___, Nobel Prize-winning German physicist who was born in December |
| 53% | CHEMISTRY | 9 | Nobel prize won by scientist Ernest Rutherford |
| 52% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 52% | JOHN | 4 | Sir ___ Joseph Thomson, Nobel Prize-winning British physicist who was born in December |
| 51% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize won by Al Gore and Barack Obama |
| 51% | ASTON | 5 | Francis William ___, Nobel prize winning English chemist |
| 51% | PLANCK | 6 | Nobel Prize physicist from Germany |
| 51% | BOHR | 4 | Niels who won the Nobel Prize for his model of the atom |
| 50% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 50% | OBAMA | 5 | Two-time Grammy and Nobel Prize winning president |
| 50% | PEACE | 5 | Category of Nobel Prize won by Mother Teresa |
| 49% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize category won by Malala Yousafzai |
| 49% | BOHR | 4 | Danish physicist Niels |
| 49% | BOHR | 4 | Nobel physicist Niels |
| 49% | ALBERTEINSTEIN | 14 | Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist profiled by 54-Across in a biography subtitled "His Life and Universe" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | PHYSICS | 7 | Nobel Prize in __; won by Marie Curie in 1903 |
| 47% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel ___ Prize (award won by Mother Teresa) |
| 47% | TWO | 3 | Number of Nobel Prizes Marie Curie won |
| 45% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert ___ whose writings were published as a book titled "Ideas and Opinions" |
| 45% | SADAT | 5 | Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian leader |
| 45% | DAG | 3 | Nobel prize-winning economist Hammarskjold |
| 45% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning author Wiesel |