Nobel Prize

noun

No·​bel Prize nō-ˈbel- How to pronounce Nobel Prize (audio)
ˈnō-ˌbel-
: 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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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part to Deepmind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the development of AlphaFold–an AI model that predicts the structure of proteins, the complex chemicals essential to making our bodies work. Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 Silvia sported the yellow style for both the Nobel Prize ceremony and a state visit to the Netherlands that year. Greta Bjornson, People.com, 3 June 2025 And the budget proposes closing one of the two gravitational-wave detectors used by the LIGO collaboration—whose observations of colliding black holes earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics—even though both detectors need to be online for LIGO’s experiment to work. Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 3 June 2025 In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere. Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for Nobel Prize

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First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Nobel Prize was in 1897

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“Nobel Prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nobel%20Prize. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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Nobel Prize

noun
No·​bel Prize (ˌ)nō-ˌbel- How to pronounce Nobel Prize (audio)
: 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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