[mzl]

Wrong area for a Nobel prize, the prize areas are physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace. There is also a prize in economics given at the same time.

[eru]

Perhaps he could steal the Economics "Nobel" prize, like lots of other mathematicians have done.

There was a paper about how recognizing bad securities is a NP hard problem a while ago. So this is applicable. (Tongue-in-cheek.)

[linhares]

http://scholar.google.com.br/scholar?q=%2B%22np+complete%22+...

[jacoblyles]

They'll give a peace prize for anything. Why not a proof of P!=NP?