Nobel
Americannoun
noun
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Two dozen Americans have flown to the moon, 116 have sat on the Supreme Court, 25 have run a mile in under 3:51 and 76 have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
Many economists who propounded the inevitability of business cycles, including Kuznets, Hayek, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, have won Nobel Prizes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Theoretical proof for this comes from a famous article written 40 years ago by William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize mainly for bringing an end to the 20-year military stalemate with neighbouring Eritrea.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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