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单词 nobel
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Nobeln.

Brit. /nəʊˈbɛl/, /ˈnəʊbɛl/, U.S. /ˈˌnoʊˈˌbɛl/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Nobel.
Etymology: < the name of Alfred Nobel (1833–96), Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor of dynamite and other high explosives, who bequeathed money to fund the prizes in a will drafted in 1895.
I. Compounds.
1. Nobel Prize n. each of six (formerly five) prizes awarded annually to individuals who are judged to have contributed most in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, the promotion of peace, and economics; so Nobel Prize-man, Nobel Prize-winner, Nobel Prize-winning adj.The first five prizes were established under the will of Alfred Nobel and have been awarded annually since 1901; the last, in economics, was established by the Bank of Sweden in memory of Nobel, and was first awarded in 1969.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel; the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > awards in science and the arts generally
Grand Prix1828
Nobel Prize1899
Pulitzer1911
Nobel1951
1899 Science 29 Sept. 463/2 A commission to award the first Nobel prize for the promotion of peace.
1900 Sci.-gossip Dec. 195/1 Each candidate for a Nobel prize must be proposed in writing by some one qualified to make such proposal.
1904 To-day 28 Dec. 252/2 (heading) The Nobel prizemen.
1925 S. Lewis Arrowsmith xxxviii. 420 Member there was one of these Nobel-prize winners, Slim, one of these plumb fanatics that instead of blowing in the prize spent the whole thing on chimps and other apes.
1932 Discovery Oct. 327/2 Ross..was..awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
1958 B. Russell Let. 5 Sept. in K. Gregory First Cuckoo (1978) 254 The incident concerns the dealings of the Home Office with Dr Linus Pauling, a very distinguished native-born American,..Nobel Prizeman, and well known throughout the scientific world.
1958 Listener 6 Nov. 749/1 His great discovery, a Nobel-prizewinning matter.
1962 Listener 8 Nov. 775/1 Deservedly a Nobel Prize winner, O'Neill..was perhaps the greatest twentieth-century dramatist writing in English.
1969 Times 29 Sept. 10/8 An award for economics is, I hear, to be added to the list of Nobel prizes for peace, literature, physics, chemistry, and medicine.
1975 Nature 16 Oct. 531/3 It was supported by a galaxy of scientific stars, including 14 Nobel Prizewinners.
1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Mar. a 3/1 The so-called Tobin tax..was first proposed by Nobel Prize-winning U.S. economist James Tobin in 1978.
2. General attributive. Designating a person or thing associated with the Nobel Prizes, as Nobel award, Nobel committee, Nobel judge, Nobel laureate, etc.
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1900 Science 5 Oct. 499/1 For each section of Swedish prize, the competent corporation shall designate a ‘Nobel committee’, composed of three or five members, who shall give their advice upon the conferring of the prize.
1912 Science 20 Sept. 368/2 Professor Wilhelm Ostwald..; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1909.
1921 Sci. Monthly Apr. 383/2 The Nobel award came as a perfect surprise to me.
1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War 144 Professor W. N. Haworth of Birmingham, the famous organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
1949 Sci. Amer. Dec. 15/1 The youngest person to receive a Nobel award was William Lawrence Bragg.
1965 Listener 2 Sept. 329/2 Three great physiologists, all Nobel laureates.
1972 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 66 663/1 An outstanding winner of the Nobel laurel.
1973 D. Robinson Rotten with Honour 66 Our own people rate this man's work at Nobel standard.
1977 Science 13 May 738/2 The Nobel judges are by no means infallible.
1983 Maclean's 24 Oct. 51/2 Last week, the Nobel Committee awarded its 1983 prize for medicine to 81-year-old genetic scientist Barbara McClintock.
1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Nov. 27/1 Is the Nobel laurel wreath a fitting recognition of a great artist?
1995 Independent 10 Oct. 17/2 Nobel judges, like all top scientists, are increasingly intertwined with industry over research money and support.
II. Simple uses.
3. A Nobel Prize.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > awards in science and the arts generally
Grand Prix1828
Nobel Prize1899
Pulitzer1911
Nobel1951
1951 N.Y. Times 18 Nov. iv. 2/2 Nobels:..Pår Lagerkvist was awarded the 1951 Nobel literature prize for ‘Barabbas’. Other Nobel awards last week: [etc.].
1968 J. D. Watson Double Helix xxii. 163 Though the odds still appeared against us, Linus had not yet won his Nobel.
1975 J. Aiken Voices in Empty House ii. 73 August's lab assistants gave him this set when he won his Nobel.
1992 F. Close Too Hot to Handle (BNC) 92 There are billions of dollars at stake and Nobels in the offing.
2002 New Scientist 21 Sept. 52/3 He's the only person to have won two physics Nobels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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