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.
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Shocked into taking a political stand, Mann turned a birthday speech in honor of the Nobel Prize–winning author Gerhart Hauptmann into a stirring call for democracy. George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024 But on October 9, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, for their creation of AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts the structure of proteins, the building blocks of biology, based on their chemical sequence. Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 As the presidential election comes down to the wire, Quartz spoke with Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who last month won the Nobel Prize in Economics with colleagues Daron Acemoglu, also of MIT, and James A. Robinson, of the University of Chicago. Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024 Their eventual success would win them a Nobel Prize. Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Nobel Prize 

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 14 Nov. 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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