: 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 more literary-minded might prefer the Cosmos Club, which hangs up portraits of members who win the Nobel Prize.
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Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Comments Bob Dylan turns 84 today, and this seems to have been a particularly good spin around the sun for the Grammy, Oscar, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Nobel Prize winner.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 24 May 2025
For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement, offering a spot among the elite at a campus that produces Nobel Prize winners, captains of industry and global leaders.
—Jocelyn Gecker, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
For example, the researchers who received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in artificial neural networks — technologies that underlie tools like ChatGPT — received N.S.F. funding in the 1980s, long before their work had widespread applications.
—Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Comments Bob Dylan turns 84 today, and this seems to have been a particularly good spin around the sun for the Grammy, Oscar, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Nobel Prize winner.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 24 May 2025
For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement, offering a spot among the elite at a campus that produces Nobel Prize winners, captains of industry and global leaders.
—Jocelyn Gecker, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
For example, the researchers who received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in artificial neural networks — technologies that underlie tools like ChatGPT — received N.S.F. funding in the 1980s, long before their work had widespread applications.
—Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 22 May 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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