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 His work caught the attention of researchers at Urbana-Champaign as well as Anthony Leggett, a theorist at the University of Sussex in England whose understanding of helium would later win him a Nobel Prize in Physics. Katrina Miller, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024 In 2009 your work on ribosomes, the site of protein synthesis, won you the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024 Altos Labs, which raised $3 billion, is aiming to reverse diseases of aging by rejuvenating cells — inspired by research that won the 2012 Nobel Prize. Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 Born in Colombia in 1927, García Márquez (who was sometimes called Gabo) was a Nobel Prize winner and pioneering magical realist best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024 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

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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 28 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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