Nobel Prize Definition

noun
Any of the six international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and economics and for the promotion of world peace.
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Noun

Singular:
Nobel Prize
Plural:
nobel-prizes

Origin of Nobel Prize

  • After Alfred Bernhard Nobel

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nobel Prize Sentence Examples

  • Together with Frederic Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1904.

  • In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and utilized the whole amount, L8,000, for the upkeep of the school at Bolpur.

  • In 1902 he received the Nobel prize for medicine, in 1911 a K.C.B., and in 1918 a K.C.M.G.

  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1977 for his contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.

  • In 1903 they were awarded the Davy medal of the Royal Society in recognition of this work, and in the same year the Nobel prize for physics was divided between them and Henri Becquerel.

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