: 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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Quantifying that theory won University of Chicago economist Robert Lucas the Nobel Prize in 1995.
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Peter Green, Quartz, 13 July 2024
The uniformity of appearance means that a first-time fiction writer such as Bennett becomes, visually, a peer of a Nobel Prize winner.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
The Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet, which awards the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, credited Bergström with determining the chemical structure of prostaglandins and with demonstrating that they are made from unsaturated fatty acids.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Their second-cousin Wole Soyinka was the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1986.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2024
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Peter Green, Quartz, 13 July 2024
The uniformity of appearance means that a first-time fiction writer such as Bennett becomes, visually, a peer of a Nobel Prize winner.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
The Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet, which awards the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, credited Bergström with determining the chemical structure of prostaglandins and with demonstrating that they are made from unsaturated fatty acids.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Their second-cousin Wole Soyinka was the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1986.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 July 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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