: 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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Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a double helix, consisting of two strands that coil around each other to create what resembles a long, gently twisting ladder.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
This new research should push the nation’s health leaders to reconsider the enormous potential of this Nobel Prize-winning technology.
—Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Wilkins and Crick, and Franklin only received proper credit for her contribution much later.
—David M. Ewalt, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2025
James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer.
—Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
This new research should push the nation’s health leaders to reconsider the enormous potential of this Nobel Prize-winning technology.
—Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Wilkins and Crick, and Franklin only received proper credit for her contribution much later.
—David M. Ewalt, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2025
James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer.
—Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 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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