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The Alfred Noble Prize is an award presented by the 
The prize has no connection to the
American Society of Civil Engineers
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, as the trustee of prize funds contributed by the combined engineering societies of the United States. It is awarded annually to a person not over the age of thirty-five for a technical paper of exceptional merit published in one of the journals of the participating societies.
Established in 1929 in honor of Alfred Noble (1844-1914), past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
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, the prize was first awarded in 1931. There have been several notable winners of this prize, including Claude E. Shannon in 1939.
The prize has no connection to the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
established by Alfred Nobel, with which it is often confused owing to the similarity of their names.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Noble Prize Awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1929 establishments in the United States Awards established in 1929