: 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
Examples of Nobel Prize in a Sentence
He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
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In 2024, Jumper and Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work creating AlphaFold 2.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery in 1962.
—F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
And there’s no telling whether this is another Gaza-style stroke of diplomatic genius that gets him closer to a Nobel Prize.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Gabriel, who works in UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and her colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Bell Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of supercomputing.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2025
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery in 1962.
—F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
And there’s no telling whether this is another Gaza-style stroke of diplomatic genius that gets him closer to a Nobel Prize.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Gabriel, who works in UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and her colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Bell Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of supercomputing.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 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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