: 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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