: 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 honor is intended to share the same clout as the Nobel Prize, but for advancements in space exploration.
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Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 23 July 2025
But in the early 1990s, Anton Zeilinger, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies of entanglement, showed that this wasn’t always true.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
The results of the modeling were eventually confirmed, and the scientists who did the work were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—David Michaels, The Atlantic, 20 July 2025
The British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving in the 1960s that singularities would inevitably occur in an empty universe made up entirely of space-time.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 20 July 2025
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Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 23 July 2025
But in the early 1990s, Anton Zeilinger, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies of entanglement, showed that this wasn’t always true.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
The results of the modeling were eventually confirmed, and the scientists who did the work were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—David Michaels, The Atlantic, 20 July 2025
The British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving in the 1960s that singularities would inevitably occur in an empty universe made up entirely of space-time.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 20 July 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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