Nobel

[ noh-bel ]

/ noʊˈbɛl /

noun

Al·fred Bern·hard

[ahl-fred -ber-nahrd], /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/, 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.

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Words nearby Nobel

nob, no ball, nobble, nobbut, nobby, Nobel, Nobelist, nobelium, Nobel laureate, Nobel prize, Nobel Prizes

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“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
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This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.
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He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”
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Second, the Nobel Prize for economics went to Jean Tirole, who studies how to regulate politically powerful companies.
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On December 10, 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he knew the world was watching.
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Death appeared almost simultaneously with the news that Maeterlinck had been awarded the Nobel prize for literature.
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It would register judgments such as those of the famous sub-committee that grants the Nobel Prizes.
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The Nobel prize does not add to the stature of a man, but it does elevate him to a pulpit.
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The Nobel prize of $40,000 was awarded annually to the person anywhere in the world who had done the most for peace.
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British Dictionary definitions for Nobel

Nobel

/ (nəʊˈbɛl) /

noun

Alfred Bernhard (ˈalfreːd ˈbæːrnhard). 1833–96, Swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite (1866) and his bequest founding the Nobel prizes

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