Nobel

[ noh-bel ]

noun

1. Al·fred Bern·hard [ahl, -f, r, ed , ber, -nah, r, d], 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist: founding benefactor of the Nobel Prizes.

Nobel

/ nəʊˈbɛl /

noun

1. NobelAlfred Bernhard18331896MSwedishSCIENCE: chemistPHILANTHROPY: philanthropistTECHNOLOGY: inventor Alfred Bernhard (ˈalfreːd ˈbæːrnhard). 1833–96, Swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite (1866) and his bequest founding the Nobel prizes

Example Sentences

Well, the Nobel committee has a list explaining who can do so.

From Washington Post

For all the details, see our Nobel coverage, but for now, just know that part of the CRISPR system involves identifying DNA from viruses and inserting copies of it into the bacterial genome in order to recognize it should the virus ever appear again.

From Ars Technica

That result carries some weight, since Banerjee and Duflo won the 2019 Nobel in economics for their work on evaluating the impact of development programs.

From MIT Technology Review

After being rescued from Europe through human generosity and taken in by an American foster family, he demonstrated generosity in his turn, donating his Nobel medal to the public high school he attended as a refugee in a suburb of Chicago.

From Washington Post

Yet the Nobel rules don’t allow institutions to be recipients of any Nobel other than the Peace Prize.

From Ozy

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

From The Daily Beast

This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.

From The Daily Beast

He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”

From The Daily Beast

Second, the Nobel Prize for economics went to Jean Tirole, who studies how to regulate politically powerful companies.

From The Daily Beast

On December 10, 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he knew the world was watching.

From The Daily Beast

Finsen was given the Nobel prize partly for re-discovery of this.

From Project Gutenberg

In the same year Nobel contributed another of his notable inventions, and called it dynamite.

From Project Gutenberg

No wonder Kipling got the Nobel prize for idealistic literature.

From Project Gutenberg

So Ostwald, having won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1909, is in a fair way to become in time eligible for the Nobel peace prize.

From Project Gutenberg

Ostwald devoted the $40,000 he got from the Nobel Fund to the attempt to introduce a new language, Ido.

From Project Gutenberg