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It also sometimes known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, even though it has nothing at all to do with the Nobel Prize. RLA makes little effort to clear up this misconception, indeed they have chosen to have their ceremony the day before the Nobel Prize. On their web page, they make numerous comparisons with the Nobel Prize, and they also provide a number of diagrams detailing how much more fair the RLA prize is than Nobel. [1]
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