How to Use Nobel Prize in a Sentence

Nobel Prize

noun
  • He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
  • In 2020, the creators of the tool won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The researchers behind the system won the Nobel Prize in 2020.
    Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • When the duo were last on screen together, Sheldon and Amy won the Nobel Prize in physics.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024
  • The two most famous prizes in the world are the Academy Award for work in film and the Nobel Prize for work in science and medicine.
    Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Goldin is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics, which has been awarded to 90 men.
    Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Maria Ressa is the famous editor of it, co-winner of the Nobel Prize.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This is the work that my postdoc advisor, Richard Axel, got the Nobel Prize for.
    Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
  • That was Gerard ‘t Hooft, the Nobel Prize winner, one of the great physicists of 20th century.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • All three, however, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • In 2009 your work on ribosomes, the site of protein synthesis, won you the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The Nobel Prize-winning economist has been dead for nearly two decades.
    William McGurn 3, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Compton received his Nobel Prize in 1927, shared with a pair of German scientists—one of whom would invent the Geiger counter.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 22 July 2023
  • His books appear reliably on shelves around the world in dozens of languages, a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize.
    Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • William Shockley and two teammates invented the transistor there in 1947 and won a Nobel Prize.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The Nobel Prize in economics will be announced in Stockholm on Monday.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a port city in southeastern Bangladesh, according to his profile on the Nobel Prize website.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Hot 100 hit, Dawes is one of just two people credited with writing or co-writing a No. 1 hit who have also won a Nobel Prize.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The previous year, both Hahn and Meitner had been nominated for a Nobel Prize.
    Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As chance would have it, Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for Literature once the project was already underway.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of this effect.
    Katrina Miller, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In 2023, the Ig Nobel Prize in medicine went to team of scientists who used cadavers to answer the question of whether there are an equal number of hairs in each of a person’s two nostrils.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • During a joint video call in which the couple spoke with activist and Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, three bird nest prints were visible behind the couple's couch.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett, who died in 1989, has long been considered one of the most creative literary minds of his age.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Oe was an exceptional writer — the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1994 — and an exceptional man.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Apr. 2023
  • That’s a widespread notion shared by top economists, Nobel Prize winners among them.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In 1997, the Ig Nobel Prize in medicine went to a trio of researchers for their discovery that listening to Muzak stimulates the immune system and may help prevent the common cold.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • That year, the Frankfurt conference coincided with the announcement of the winner of the Nobel Prize, and Alexievich was considered one of the front-runners to win.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Even after Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of the photoelectric effect, debate continued among physicists.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In June, 16 Nobel Prize–winning economists signed a letter expressing their concern that Trump’s proposals could reignite inflation.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024

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