Nobel laureate

[ (noh-bel) ]

Save This Word!

Someone who has been awarded a Nobel Prize.

QUIZZES

Apostrophes can be tricky; prove you know the difference between it’s and its in this crafty quiz!

Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.
Promoting Girls’ Education Isn’t Enough: Malala Can Do More|Paula Kweskin|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else|Allen Barra|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Second, the Nobel Prize for economics went to Jean Tirole, who studies how to regulate politically powerful companies.
The Supreme Court Is Weighing Corporate Power Yet Again|Zephyr Teachout|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

On December 10, 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he knew the world was watching.
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Speech Is an Often Ignored Masterpiece|Malcolm Jones|October 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Laureate is among the English poets evidently the great favorite of our guide: the choice does honor to his head and heart.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches|William Makepeace Thackeray
At the Floral Games he who is crowned poet-laureate chooses the Queen, and she crowns him with a wreath of olive leaves.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
Finsen was given the Nobel prize partly for re-discovery of this.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine|James J. Walsh
In the same year Nobel contributed another of his notable inventions, and called it dynamite.
Invention|Bradley A. Fiske
Until the appearance of the biography referred to, we had known the Laureate almost wholly through his books.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII|John Lord