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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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His work has earned international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2018, often referred to as Asia's Nobel Prize.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Within a month, he had developed an elegant formula that would upend scientific understanding of how molecules use energy and eventually win him the Nobel Prize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Now, the same Nobel Prize winning technology is being adapted to fight cancer, with experimental mRNA vaccines already being tested against melanoma, small cell lung cancer, bladder cancer, and several other cancers.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth explains what we learn when markets are shaped by big ethical questions.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Nor were there any Nobel Prize winners in his exhaustively selected group of geniuses.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

"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