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Nobel

American  
[noh-bel] / noʊˈbɛl /

noun

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


Nobel British  
/ nəʊˈbɛl /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The harvest was a series of crises, notably the 1998 collapse of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, which was founded by Nobel economics laureates to pursue abstruse arbitrage trades.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

The Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was one critic.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

On Friday, John Jumper, a Nobel Prize winner, also said he would leave Alphabet.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026

Pope Leo recently issued an encyclical on AI that built on the work last September of a panel of Nobel laureates, tech specialists and other luminaries the Vatican had assembled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

At Caltech, two physical chemists, Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, had used this technique to solve the structures of several protein fragments—a feat that would win Pauling the Nobel Prize in 1954.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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