: 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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Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 proteins play in sensing mechanical stimuli.
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Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
Alatáriel Marie There have been many famous Maries through history, but perhaps the most heroic of them all was Marie Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, who conducted groundbreaking, Nobel Prize winning research on radioactivity.
—Taylor Grothe, Parents, 10 Apr. 2026
Gore cited Nobel Prize-winning research by the Belgian physical chemist Ilya Prigogine into self-organizing systems as a model for eyeing how AI models can grow in unexpected ways.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
Fatherland centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
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Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
Alatáriel Marie There have been many famous Maries through history, but perhaps the most heroic of them all was Marie Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, who conducted groundbreaking, Nobel Prize winning research on radioactivity.
—Taylor Grothe, Parents, 10 Apr. 2026
Gore cited Nobel Prize-winning research by the Belgian physical chemist Ilya Prigogine into self-organizing systems as a model for eyeing how AI models can grow in unexpected ways.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
Fatherland centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
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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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