: any of various annual prizes (as in peace, literature, medicine) established by the will of Alfred Nobel for the encouragement of persons who work for the interests of humanity
called also Nobel
Examples of Nobel Prize in a Sentence
He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
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In 2002, six years after Tversky’s death, Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their models of how intuitive reasoning is flawed in predictable ways.
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Diksha Madhok, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Kahneman shared the 2002 Nobel Prize with Vernon Smith, another experimental economist.
Kahneman and his wife, Irah Kahn, had two children: Michael and Lenore.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
The 2024 Abel Prize—the mathematics world’s Nobel Prize equivalent—has been awarded to Michel Talagrand for his advances in describing and predicting the universe’s randomness.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
His work caught the attention of researchers at Urbana-Champaign as well as Anthony Leggett, a theorist at the University of Sussex in England whose understanding of helium would later win him a Nobel Prize in Physics.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
In 2009 your work on ribosomes, the site of protein synthesis, won you the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
Altos Labs, which raised $3 billion, is aiming to reverse diseases of aging by rejuvenating cells — inspired by research that won the 2012 Nobel Prize.
—Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Born in Colombia in 1927, García Márquez (who was sometimes called Gabo) was a Nobel Prize winner and pioneering magical realist best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
Early in his seven-decade career, Dr. Hiatt worked in Paris with future Nobel Prize winners on the discovery of messenger RNA, a key element of cellular biology.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Diksha Madhok, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Kahneman shared the 2002 Nobel Prize with Vernon Smith, another experimental economist.
Kahneman and his wife, Irah Kahn, had two children: Michael and Lenore.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
The 2024 Abel Prize—the mathematics world’s Nobel Prize equivalent—has been awarded to Michel Talagrand for his advances in describing and predicting the universe’s randomness.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
His work caught the attention of researchers at Urbana-Champaign as well as Anthony Leggett, a theorist at the University of Sussex in England whose understanding of helium would later win him a Nobel Prize in Physics.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
In 2009 your work on ribosomes, the site of protein synthesis, won you the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
Altos Labs, which raised $3 billion, is aiming to reverse diseases of aging by rejuvenating cells — inspired by research that won the 2012 Nobel Prize.
—Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Born in Colombia in 1927, García Márquez (who was sometimes called Gabo) was a Nobel Prize winner and pioneering magical realist best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
Early in his seven-decade career, Dr. Hiatt worked in Paris with future Nobel Prize winners on the discovery of messenger RNA, a key element of cellular biology.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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Nobel Prize
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No·bel Prize
(ˌ)nō-ˌbel- 
: an annual prize (as in literature, medicine, peace) established by the will of Alfred Nobel for the encouragement of people who work for the interests of humanity
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