Nobel Prize

American

[noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel] / ˈnoʊ bɛl ˈpraɪz, noʊˈbɛl /

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 prize British

noun

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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The chemists who discovered it just won the Nobel Prize for their invention.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the next 10 years the tech would become "a superpower" in terms of what people would be able to create, Sir Demis, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said.

From BBC

“I can’t think of anybody in history,” he said, “that should get the Nobel Prize more than me. And I don’t want to be bragging, but nobody else settled wars.”

From The Wall Street Journal

She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993, and her work was popularized in the late 1990s by the Oprah Winfrey Book Club.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Although the 2023 Nobel prize in physics shows we can access such short times, the use of such an external time scale risks to induce artifacts," Dil says.

From Science Daily

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