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Nobel laureate

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  1. Someone who has been awarded a Nobel Prize.


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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who has led the country of 170 million as interim leader since the uprising, said Rahman "would help guide the country toward stability, inclusiveness, and development".

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

A caretaker government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus paved the way for what many saw as Bangladesh’s most free elections in a long time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Today, there is a strict firewall between the government and the people tasked with selecting the Nobel laureate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

As a graduate student he joined the lab of Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, where he was paired with a postdoc fellow named Xu Liu.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025

This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik