: 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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Last week, 153 top Nobel Prize and World Food Prize laureates sounded an alarm about the dangerous consequences of the world’s current approach to climate action and food system change.
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Danielle Nierenberg, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
There was also Linus Pauling, one of the founders of molecular biology and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, who for much of his career also promoted megadoses of vitamin C as a way to prevent 75 percent of cancers and extend life to the elusive age of 150.
—Joe Kloc, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.
—Fanny Guénon Des Mesnards, Architectural Digest, 18 Jan. 2025
Dedication The researchers dedicated their study, which has been published in the journal Science, to Sir Fraser Stoddart, a former fellow Northwestern chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 for his work pioneering mechanical bonds.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2025
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Danielle Nierenberg, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
There was also Linus Pauling, one of the founders of molecular biology and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, who for much of his career also promoted megadoses of vitamin C as a way to prevent 75 percent of cancers and extend life to the elusive age of 150.
—Joe Kloc, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.
—Fanny Guénon Des Mesnards, Architectural Digest, 18 Jan. 2025
Dedication The researchers dedicated their study, which has been published in the journal Science, to Sir Fraser Stoddart, a former fellow Northwestern chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 for his work pioneering mechanical bonds.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2025
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Nobel Prize
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No·bel Prize
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: 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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