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  Nobel Prize

  noun

  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
  Nobel prize

  noun

  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

Nobel Prize

American  

[noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel] / ˈnoʊ bɛl ˈpraɪz, noʊˈbɛl /

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.

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Nobel prize British  

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

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Moerner received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering contributions to super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Fifty years ago Wednesday, Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

But they are all, clearly, smart enough, and future Nobel Prize winners come from schools like Georgetown as well as from schools like Harvard.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Scientists who worked out how to control brain cells with light have won this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Members of the team here have just received the Nobel prize for the original research into "superconducting qubits" used here.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

The Nobel prize winners’ research also sheds light on some of the politics involved in creative destruction, to which investors need to pay attention.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, France's Philippe Aghion and Canada's Peter Howitt for work on technology's impact on sustained economic growth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

The head of the department in which he studied was a Professor Kylmer, a very famous man who had once won a Nobel prize.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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