: 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.
Recent Examples on the Web
When the duo were last on screen together, Sheldon and Amy won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024
In 1923, the same year that his brother, the poet William Butler Yeats, earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, and just as Ireland was becoming independent, Yeats painted a modern scene depicting a swimming race down the Liffey River, through the heart of Dublin.
—John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024
The Swedish royal wore the headpiece to the 2023 Nobel Prize Banquet at Stockholm City Hall in its emerald setting on Dec. 10 and switched it up by skipping the extra gems for the King's Nobel Dinner at the Royal Palace on Dec. 11.
Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage?
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2024
Pauling would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 — and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Apr. 2024
Kohn also became a de facto grandfather for Perlin’s son, and in a perfect coda to this relationship, that son, Pesach, is now a Ph.D in organic chemistry, pursuing work that draws upon the breakthroughs that won Kohn the Nobel Prize.
—Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
For this work, Crutzen, a Dutchman living in Germany, had received a Nobel Prize, in 1995.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
Chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen had been listening to a narrative emerging at an international convening of scientists in Mexico.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
Even the family cat slept curled, tightly but voluntarily, inside a beaker in the lab, and Naomi’s dollhouse was decorated in part by famous scientists—including Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr, who brought Naomi a little toy jug for her miniature estate.
—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024
In 1923, the same year that his brother, the poet William Butler Yeats, earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, and just as Ireland was becoming independent, Yeats painted a modern scene depicting a swimming race down the Liffey River, through the heart of Dublin.
—John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024
The Swedish royal wore the headpiece to the 2023 Nobel Prize Banquet at Stockholm City Hall in its emerald setting on Dec. 10 and switched it up by skipping the extra gems for the King's Nobel Dinner at the Royal Palace on Dec. 11.
Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage?
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2024
Pauling would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 — and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Apr. 2024
Kohn also became a de facto grandfather for Perlin’s son, and in a perfect coda to this relationship, that son, Pesach, is now a Ph.D in organic chemistry, pursuing work that draws upon the breakthroughs that won Kohn the Nobel Prize.
—Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
For this work, Crutzen, a Dutchman living in Germany, had received a Nobel Prize, in 1995.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
Chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen had been listening to a narrative emerging at an international convening of scientists in Mexico.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
Even the family cat slept curled, tightly but voluntarily, inside a beaker in the lab, and Naomi’s dollhouse was decorated in part by famous scientists—including Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr, who brought Naomi a little toy jug for her miniature estate.
—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 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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