Nobel Prize

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

engineering discovery innovation amplification Nobel laureate nobel prize winner nobel prize laureate awarded the nobel prize Charles Townes nobel prize winning peace laureate prize winners win a nobel award recipients annual international prize

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Hypernyms

award honor accolade honour laurels

Examples

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw

Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. George Bernard Shaw

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed. Christopher A. Sims

Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize. Richard Feynman

To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest. Adrienne Rich

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. Friedrich Hayek

Close letter words and terms

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