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by scrrr 5732 days ago
From Alfred Nobel's Will: "...The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics;..."

According to that a price for physics is awarded to both a discovery as well as an invention and this would be the latter.

http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/will-full.html