Nobel laureate

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1. Someone who has been awarded a Nobel Prize.

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Nobel laureate

A classic study published in 1990 by future Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and psychologist Eric Johnson found that people are much more likely to gamble after they’ve just gained a windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

We know this because of the findings of William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

The obvious gem of the collection is the attention-getting title story, about the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who died in 2024 — and whose complex, layered short fiction Aviv admires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was one critic.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

And at least two well-known scientists, the astronomer Ernst Öpik and the chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey, had also voiced support for the notion at various times.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson