Nobelist

noun

No·​bel·​ist nō-ˈbe-list How to pronounce Nobelist (audio)
plural Nobelists
: a winner of a Nobel Prize

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Yet economics Nobelist Peter Diamond has an equation showing the top tax rate should be 70 percent? Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025 This edition, which includes a foreword by the Peruvian writer and fellow Nobelist Mario Vargas Llosa, and an introduction by the eminent scholar Gerald Martin, endeavors to confirm Asturias’s position as a founding figure of Latin American literature. Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 July 2022

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First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Nobelist was in 1936

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“Nobelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nobelist. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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