Nobel Prize

noun

No·​bel Prize nō-ˈbel- How to pronounce Nobel Prize (audio)
ˈnō-ˌbel-
: any of various annual prizes (as in peace, literature, medicine) established by the will of Alfred Nobel for the encouragement of persons who work for the interests of humanity

called also Nobel

Examples of Nobel Prize in a Sentence

He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
Recent Examples on the Web Early in his seven-decade career, Dr. Hiatt worked in Paris with future Nobel Prize winners on the discovery of messenger RNA, a key element of cellular biology. Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024 After his death in 2014, an unfinished work — consisting of up to five drafts that the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was working on during the last years of his life — remained in storage at his personal archive at the University of Texas. Pau Mosquera and Oscar Holland, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024 The duo last shared the screen in the May 2019 series finale of The Big Bang Theory, which saw Sheldon and Amy win the Nobel Prize in physics. Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024 At various points during my time in the group, the same row of offices that included Erik was also home to three different winners of the Turing Award, commonly understood to be the computer-science equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024 Born in Bombay, India, in 1865, Kipling was one of the most renowned British writers of his time, ultimately earning a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024 To top it off, the cover has been signed by 24 of the most prominent scientists and administrators involved in developing and deploying the atomic bomb, including J. Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel Prize winners Enrico Fermi, Ernest Lawrence, James Chadwick, Harold Urey, and Isidor I. Rabi. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024 As chance would have it, Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for Literature once the project was already underway. Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024 His journeys eventually took him to the Salk, whose visiting faculty in 1970 already included Francis Crick, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Watson for discovering the molecular structure of DNA. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Nobel Prize was in 1897

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“Nobel Prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nobel%20Prize. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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Nobel Prize

noun
No·​bel Prize (ˌ)nō-ˌbel- How to pronounce Nobel Prize (audio)
: an annual prize (as in literature, medicine, peace) established by the will of Alfred Nobel for the encouragement of people who work for the interests of humanity

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