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

The White House complained that the Nobel Committee had chosen “politics over peace.”

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As for the glorious history of the Nobel Peace Prize, the fact that Henry Kissinger got one and Mahatma Gandhi did not pretty much sums it up.

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A White House official said on Friday the "Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace".

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In 2021, she became the first woman to be awarded the Robert N. Noyce medal, considered the Nobel Prize of microelectronics.

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The Nobel committee called her “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent time,” and we’d drop the geographic caveat.

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