The Sundance film festival was peppered this year with American film-makers channelling foreign influences: prize-winning films Manda Bala, Padre Nuestro and The Pool were US productions set in Brazil, Mexico and India respectively.
Finally, match underdogs and "unseeded" players may be especially susceptible to the influence of prize incentives when considering whether to quit.
Yet no evidence has come to light that AstraZeneca or Angelin had any special influence on the prize going to zur Hausen, and colleagues widely felt he was deserving of the honor.
Coleman has won the Pulitzer prize and influenced a generation of musicians.
As Mjøs retires from his position, how does he think the prize can influence the world?
And Steven Heller, who was art director of The Times Book Review for more than three decades and remains a columnist, received the Design Mind prize for influencing generations of graphic designers.
As markets head higher again, Nomura can award itself a prize for influencing both the biggest riser and biggest faller in the FTSE 100.
The report pointed to the racial monotone of UK librarians – a 2015 survey of the workforce found that 97% self-identify as white – as a possible influence on the Carnegie prize, which is judged by librarians.
The prize is influence in the next Duma and government, and thence on the presidential succession.Platon Lebedev, a key shareholder in Yukos, Russia's biggest oil producer, was arrested on July 2nd, accused of illegally acquiring shares in a fertiliser company in 1994.
Sulston now uses the fame and influence of his Nobel prize to travel the world arguing for the data from the human genome project to be made publicly available – an outcome that will do more to transform the prospects of the world's poor than any amount of aid.
From these castle-bastions, foreign diplomats conduct what they call the new Washington diplomacy, an explosion of events geared to reaching the broadest possible audience in hopes of being heard above the din of other countries competing for the same elusive prize of influence.
