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Nobel Prize
[ noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel ]
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 Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ( def ).
Nobel prize
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
Example Sentences
“The conventional wisdom at the time was to find a person who has access to information, works really hard — not to trust the markets to do their job,” Eugene Fama, a director at Dimensional Fund Advisors and one of several Nobel Prize winners who work at the firm, says in the documentary.
In a New Yorker article in 2016, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote of the existential place of race for Whites in America this way:
Vargas Llosa, a writer whose towering literary career included the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 and whose role as a public intellectual and political commentator prompted a failed bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990, has died at 89, his son Álvaro said Sunday.
Wisława Szymborska, the Polish poet, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”
With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when judges dubbed him a "divinely gifted story-teller".
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