| 100% | GOEPPERT | 8 | Maria __ Mayer Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| 63% | BOHR | 4 | Danish, Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| 62% | BOHR | 4 | Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Niels |
| 57% | QED | 3 | 2001 Peter Parnell stage play about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman |
| 56% | UREY | 4 | Nobel Prize winning physical chemist Harold ___ |
| 55% | HEISENBERG | 10 | Werner ___, Nobel Prize-winning German physicist who was born in December |
| 55% | CHEMISTRY | 9 | Nobel prize won by scientist Ernest Rutherford |
| 54% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 54% | JOHN | 4 | Sir ___ Joseph Thomson, Nobel Prize-winning British physicist who was born in December |
| 53% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize won by Al Gore and Barack Obama |
| 53% | ASTON | 5 | Francis William ___, Nobel prize winning English chemist |
| 53% | PLANCK | 6 | Nobel Prize physicist from Germany |
| 52% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 52% | OBAMA | 5 | Two-time Grammy and Nobel Prize winning president |
| 52% | PEACE | 5 | Category of Nobel Prize won by Mother Teresa |
| 51% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize category won by Malala Yousafzai |
| 50% | ALBERTEINSTEIN | 14 | Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist profiled by 54-Across in a biography subtitled "His Life and Universe" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | PHYSICS | 7 | Nobel Prize in __; won by Marie Curie in 1903 |
| 49% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel ___ Prize (award won by Mother Teresa) |
| 49% | TWO | 3 | Number of Nobel Prizes Marie Curie won |
| 47% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel ___ Prize (award for Maria Ressa and Malala Yousafzai) |
| 47% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert ___ whose writings were published as a book titled "Ideas and Opinions" |
| 47% | SADAT | 5 | Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian leader |
| 47% | DAG | 3 | Nobel prize-winning economist Hammarskjold |
| 47% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning author Wiesel |
| 47% | SEAMUS | 6 | Nobel Prize-winning poet ___ Heaney |
| 46% | TERESA | 6 | Nobel Peace Prize winning Catholic sister |
| 46% | ELIOT | 5 | Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. ___ |
| 45% | RESSA | 5 | Maria ___, Filipino American winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 45% | ILO | 3 | Nobel Prize-winning U.N. workers' grp. |