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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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Aage Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his work on the structure of the atomic nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

An author winning the Nobel Prize in literature is about as big a bonanza of demand as you can imagine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Does being a Nobel Prize laureate give you at least some protection to say what you want?"

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

In 2024, Hassabis won a Nobel Prize in chemistry.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

You can practically smell the future Nobel Prize on him.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

"Although the 2023 Nobel prize in physics shows we can access such short times, the use of such an external time scale risks to induce artifacts," Dil says.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 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

That’s short-sighted for America’s future prosperity, as this week’s news about the annual Nobel prize winners in the sciences shows again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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