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Nobel

American

[noh-bel] / noʊˈbɛl /

noun

Alfred Bernhard 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist: founding benefactor of the Nobel Prizes.

Nobel British

/ nəʊˈbɛl /

noun

Alfred Bernhard (ˈalfreːd ˈbæːrnhard). 1833–96, Swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite (1866) and his bequest founding the Nobel prizes

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Mohammadi, 54, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her activism against female oppression in Iran and promoting human rights.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Iranian authorities on Sunday released Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi on bail following growing alarm over her health and she has already been transferred to Tehran for medical treatment, her supporters said.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman referenced the acronym in a recent Substack post.

From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026

She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009 for fiction that chronicled the horrors of Ceaușescu’s totalitarianism, which lasted from 1965 to his overthrow and execution in 1989.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The 1933 Solvay Conference on Physics brought together the sciences aristocracy, including a score of current or future Nobel laureates.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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