Nobelitis

noun3

1. •
   (disapproving, humorous) Grandiosity or hubris in a Nobel laureate.

   • After all, it had worked for Lester Pearson, had it not? Did not the Peace Prize help him become Liberal leader and then prime minister? ‘Nobelitis,’ Canadians called it, and not in an unkindly way. — 2011
2. •
   (disapproving, humorous) The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise.
3. •
   (disapproving, humorous) An overriding or obsessive desire to win a Nobel Prize.

   • Privately, many scientists were critical. "Hill has 'Nobel[-]itis,'" said an astronomer who prefered^([sic]) to remain anonymous. "He wants the Nobel so badly that he is jumping the gun." — 1982