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  Nobel Prize

  noun

  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.
• Nobel prize
  Nobel prize

  noun

  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

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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The second approach was recognized by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

In June, Character.AI co-founder Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI, and John Jumper, who shared a Nobel Prize for his work on protein folding, left for Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

An author winning the Nobel Prize in literature is about as big a bonanza of demand as you can imagine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Does being a Nobel Prize laureate give you at least some protection to say what you want?"

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Nor were there any Nobel Prize winners in his exhaustively selected group of geniuses.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

They received the Nobel prize on her behalf while she was in jail.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

"Although the 2023 Nobel prize in physics shows we can access such short times, the use of such an external time scale risks to induce artifacts," Dil says.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

The Nobel prize winners’ research also sheds light on some of the politics involved in creative destruction, to which investors need to pay attention.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

That’s short-sighted for America’s future prosperity, as this week’s news about the annual Nobel prize winners in the sciences shows again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

The head of the department in which he studied was a Professor Kylmer, a very famous man who had once won a Nobel prize.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien