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Nobel

[ noh-bel ]

noun

  1. Al·fred Bern·hard [ahl, -f, r, ed , ber, -nah, r, d], 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist: founding benefactor of the Nobel Prizes.


Nobel

/ nəʊˈbɛl /

noun

  1. NobelAlfred Bernhard18331896MSwedishSCIENCE: chemistPHILANTHROPY: philanthropistTECHNOLOGY: inventor Alfred Bernhard (ˈalfreːd ˈbæːrnhard). 1833–96, Swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite (1866) and his bequest founding the Nobel prizes


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“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.

He may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”

Second, the Nobel Prize for economics went to Jean Tirole, who studies how to regulate politically powerful companies.

On December 10, 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he knew the world was watching.

Finsen was given the Nobel prize partly for re-discovery of this.

In the same year Nobel contributed another of his notable inventions, and called it dynamite.

No wonder Kipling got the Nobel prize for idealistic literature.

So Ostwald, having won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1909, is in a fair way to become in time eligible for the Nobel peace prize.

Ostwald devoted the $40,000 he got from the Nobel Fund to the attempt to introduce a new language, Ido.

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