: 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
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He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
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The climax really was the Nobel Prize itself, which is only granted to a very few people every year.
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
Angus Deacon, a professor at Princeton and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, sees too many downsides in conventional aid.
—David Sogge, Time, 5 Apr. 2025
Turing Award: The award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, was given to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the developers of a technique called reinforcement learning that is vital to chatbots.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Szostak — who six years later would get a Nobel Prize for unrelated work — wanted to quantify the amount of information or complexity that biological molecules like proteins or DNA strands embody.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
Angus Deacon, a professor at Princeton and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, sees too many downsides in conventional aid.
—David Sogge, Time, 5 Apr. 2025
Turing Award: The award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, was given to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the developers of a technique called reinforcement learning that is vital to chatbots.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Szostak — who six years later would get a Nobel Prize for unrelated work — wanted to quantify the amount of information or complexity that biological molecules like proteins or DNA strands embody.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
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Nobel Prize
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No·bel Prize
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: 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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