Nobel Prize

[ noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel ]

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noun

any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel: for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the promotion of peace. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ( def ).

Nobel prize

a prize for outstanding contributions to chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and peace that may be awarded annually. It was established in 1901, the prize for economics being added in 1969. The recipients are chosen by an international committee centred in Sweden, except for the peace prize which is awarded in Oslo by a committee of the Norwegian parliament

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This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.

He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”

Second, the Nobel Prize for economics went to Jean Tirole, who studies how to regulate politically powerful companies.

That vanished sight will be our finest tribute to Kailash Satyarthi and his Nobel Prize.

Not that there is anything to be said against the 2014 Nobel Prize committee honoring Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi.

But Hauptmann remains almost unknown; even the Nobel Prize did not give him a vogue.

Is there possibly any connection between my award of the Nobel Prize, and your suddenly acute powers of appreciation?

The Nobel Prize consisted of a diploma, and an award in money of $40,000.

In 1906 Mistral was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and dedicated it to this purpose.

I must hasten to admit also that, judging from their own point of view, the Nobel Prize Trustees have so far done quite well.

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