: 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 guru for this kind of understanding was the late Dan Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Prize winner for his work in behavioral economics.
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Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
The tweak has inspired real-world auctions that power e-commerce and helped earn its inventor a Nobel Prize in economics.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 9 June 2025
Szostak—who six years later would get a Nobel Prize for unrelated work—wanted to quantify the amount of information or complexity that biological molecules like proteins or DNA strands embody.
—Philip Ball, Wired News, 8 June 2025
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part to Deepmind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the development of AlphaFold–an AI model that predicts the structure of proteins, the complex chemicals essential to making our bodies work.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
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Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
The tweak has inspired real-world auctions that power e-commerce and helped earn its inventor a Nobel Prize in economics.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 9 June 2025
Szostak—who six years later would get a Nobel Prize for unrelated work—wanted to quantify the amount of information or complexity that biological molecules like proteins or DNA strands embody.
—Philip Ball, Wired News, 8 June 2025
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part to Deepmind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the development of AlphaFold–an AI model that predicts the structure of proteins, the complex chemicals essential to making our bodies work.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
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“Nobel Prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nobel%20Prize. Accessed 2 Jul. 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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