Nobel Prize

American  

[noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel] / ˈnoʊ bɛl ˈpraɪz, noʊˈbɛl /

noun

1. any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel: for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the promotion of peace.

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Nobel prize British  

noun

1. a prize for outstanding contributions to chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and peace that may be awarded annually. It was established in 1901, the prize for economics being added in 1969. The recipients are chosen by an international committee centred in Sweden, except for the peace prize which is awarded in Oslo by a committee of the Norwegian parliament

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Example Sentences

In 1936, O’Neill became the first and only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize.

From The Wall Street Journal

The team at DeepMind won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2024 for their work on AlphaFold – an AI system that predicts the 3D structure of proteins in the body.

From BBC

Dubbed "the God particle", its discovery in 2012 broadened science's understanding of how particles acquire mass and earned physicists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics.

From Barron's

This phenomenon, known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, was confirmed experimentally and recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.

From Science Daily

But unlike past Fed chairs Alan Greenspan, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke -- who won a Nobel prize after his Fed service -- Rieder has no PhD.

From Barron's