Nobel Prizes

1. Prizes given annually for achievement in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics, and medicine and physiology. The prizes were founded by a Swedish munitions maker, Alfred Nobel, and are considered a mark of worldwide leadership in the fields in which they are given. Nobel winners, called Nobel laureates, receive their prizes in ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the peace prize, which is presented in Oslo, Norway.

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The world’s brightest students compete to study at our universities and 17 national laboratories, to build innovative enterprises and win Nobel prizes as U.S. citizens.

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Nobel prizes in the sciences are the result of intellectual capital built over decades of hard work and research.

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Appeared in the October 9, 2025, print edition as 'Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes'.

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A plan to reduce calorie intake by adding Teflon to food and painting cows to look like zebras so they might get bitten by flies less are among the winning research projects of this years Ig Nobel prizes.

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Between 1901 and 1933, it had won a full one-third of all the Nobel Prizes.

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