: 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 pitch clock deserves a Nobel Prize.
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Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Still, in the hours after the heated hearing, Cassidy doubled-down on his campaign to give the President a Nobel Prize for his work on vaccines.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Hinton came to eventually see the many dangers of AI and also won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
And many of the discoveries bear the fingerprints of one particularly prescient and persistent climate modeler, Syukuro Manabe, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics for his work.
—Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
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Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Still, in the hours after the heated hearing, Cassidy doubled-down on his campaign to give the President a Nobel Prize for his work on vaccines.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Hinton came to eventually see the many dangers of AI and also won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
And many of the discoveries bear the fingerprints of one particularly prescient and persistent climate modeler, Syukuro Manabe, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics for his work.
—Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
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Nobel Prize
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No·bel Prize
(ˌ)nō-ˌbel- 
: 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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