Nobel laureate

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1. Someone who has been awarded a Nobel Prize.

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Nobel laureate

A classic study published in 1990 by future Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and psychologist Eric Johnson found that people are much more likely to gamble after they’ve just gained a windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was one critic.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

I’m on the phone with Eugene Fama, 87, the University of Chicago economics professor and Nobel laureate, and I think I’m testing his patience.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

When mother and son sing songs from the famous cycle by Bengali writer-composer and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore or hold a deathbed conversation in Bangla, the piece spins further across time and space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson