Nobel

[noh-bel]

noun

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

Nobel

/ 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

Example Sentences

Nothing came of it until the US-based Ig Nobel Prize took notice and got in touch.

From BBC

He said the US was living through a golden age and repeated his much-disputed claim that he had personally ended seven wars, something he argued merited a Nobel Peace Prize.

From BBC

Being kind hardly qualifies one for the Nobel Prize.

From Los Angeles Times

"Every Ig Nobel prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think," said Marc Abrahams, founder of the awards.

From BBC

In 1970, while performing experiments that would win him the Nobel Prize, he shut down his lab for a week and joined demonstrators in Boston against the Vietnam War-era invasion of Cambodia.

From Los Angeles Times