Nobel Prize

[noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel]

noun

1. any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel: for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the promotion of peace.

Nobel prize

noun

1. a prize for outstanding contributions to chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and peace that may be awarded annually. It was established in 1901, the prize for economics being added in 1969. The recipients are chosen by an international committee centred in Sweden, except for the peace prize which is awarded in Oslo by a committee of the Norwegian parliament

Example Sentences

Anthropic founder Dario Amodei contends the next level of AI could debut in 2026 and become smarter than Nobel Prize winners.

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A 2025 Nobel Prize went to three scientists who discovered how these cells work and the gene that controls them.

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His fellow economist on Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors, Paul Krugman, took home a Nobel Prize in 2008, as have 10 other economists born in the 1950s, none of them Summers, who was born in 1954.

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While mRNA was discovered in the early 1960s, it rose to global prominence when scientists used it to swiftly develop next-generation vaccines during the Covid pandemic, earning the medicine Nobel prize in 2023.

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Even by the time he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 80 years ago, he had warned of the dangers of resistance.

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