: 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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Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
The telescope had been used to track asteroids on a path to Earth, conduct research that led to a Nobel Prize and determine whether a planet was potentially habitable.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
The telescope had been used to track asteroids on a path to Earth, conduct research that led to a Nobel Prize and determine whether a planet was potentially habitable.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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
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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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