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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Nobel prize(noun)

    an annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace


  1. Nobel prize(n.)

    Prizes for the encouragement of men and women who work for the interests of humanity, established by the will of Alfred B. Nobel (1833-1896), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what is regarded as the most important work during the year in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, idealistic literature, and service in the interest of peace. The prizes, averaging $40,000 each, were first awarded in 1901. The monetary value of the awards have increased each year, to near one million U. S. dollars by the end of the 20th century. The awards are administered by the Nobel Foundation, which maintains a Web Page where the lists of prize winners and other information about the Nobel Prize may be found.


  1. Nobel Prize(Noun)

    Any of the international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for the promotion of world peace; or the prize in economics awarded by the Swedish National Bank, in memorial of Alfred Nobel.


  1. Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in 1968. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Editors Contribution

  1. nobel prize

    Is an annual prize awarded to an individual or group of individuals in a variety of different categories by a variety of specific institutions in Norway and Sweden to recognize cultural and/or scientific achievement or advancement that benefits humanity or the collective goals of humanity in specific categories .

    The Nobel prize is an award for achievement or advancement awarded to an individual or group of individuals.


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nobel prize in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nobel prize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza:

    The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

  2. Joi Ito:

    You don't get a Nobel Prize for doing what you're told, you get it for questioning authority.

  3. Clifford Burgess:

    If this is true, then you have 90% odds that it will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year.

  4. George Bernard Shaw:

    Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

  5. George Bernard Shaw:


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