: 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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The milestone, reached just three decades after the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the first planet orbiting a sunlike star in 1995, is largely the result of the planet-hunting power of NASA's Kepler space telescope and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
For the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, senior multimedia editor Kelso Harper explained the prizewinning discovery of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), materials with enormous implications for energy, storage and environmental science.
—Carin Leong, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2025
In 2025, the Ig Nobel Prize in aviation went to a group of scientists who investigated ethanol ingestion and its effects on flight performance and echolocation in Egyptian fruit bats.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
For their work, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics.
—Christopher Howley, AZCentral.com, 23 Dec. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
For the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, senior multimedia editor Kelso Harper explained the prizewinning discovery of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), materials with enormous implications for energy, storage and environmental science.
—Carin Leong, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2025
In 2025, the Ig Nobel Prize in aviation went to a group of scientists who investigated ethanol ingestion and its effects on flight performance and echolocation in Egyptian fruit bats.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
For their work, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics.
—Christopher Howley, AZCentral.com, 23 Dec. 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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