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

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He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
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Akerlof later won the Nobel Prize in economics largely for this revolutionary work. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 11 Aug. 2026 Played with unctuous authority by the multilingual Danish performer Claes Bang, Kersten claims to have used his influence to obtain the freedom of thousands of concentration camp prisoners, and is obsessed with winning a Nobel Prize. — Alissa Simon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026 That year Jumper and DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis shared half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold2. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026 Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist whose research helped propel modern deep learning, warned that AI systems are gaining dangerous capabilities faster than institutions can respond. — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 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

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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