How to Use Nobel Prize in a Sentence
Nobel Prize
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In 2020, the creators of the tool won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
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The researchers behind the system won the Nobel Prize in 2020.
—Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
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When the duo were last on screen together, Sheldon and Amy won the Nobel Prize in physics.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024
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The two most famous prizes in the world are the Academy Award for work in film and the Nobel Prize for work in science and medicine.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
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Goldin is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics, which has been awarded to 90 men.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
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Maria Ressa is the famous editor of it, co-winner of the Nobel Prize.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
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This is the work that my postdoc advisor, Richard Axel, got the Nobel Prize for.
—Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
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That was Gerard ‘t Hooft, the Nobel Prize winner, one of the great physicists of 20th century.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
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All three, however, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
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In 2009 your work on ribosomes, the site of protein synthesis, won you the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist has been dead for nearly two decades.
—William McGurn 3, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023
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Compton received his Nobel Prize in 1927, shared with a pair of German scientists—one of whom would invent the Geiger counter.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 22 July 2023
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His books appear reliably on shelves around the world in dozens of languages, a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize.
—Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
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William Shockley and two teammates invented the transistor there in 1947 and won a Nobel Prize.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
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The previous year, both Hahn and Meitner had been nominated for a Nobel Prize.
—Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
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As chance would have it, Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for Literature once the project was already underway.
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
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Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of this effect.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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In 2023, the Ig Nobel Prize in medicine went to team of scientists who used cadavers to answer the question of whether there are an equal number of hairs in each of a person’s two nostrils.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
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During a joint video call in which the couple spoke with activist and Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, three bird nest prints were visible behind the couple's couch.
—Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2021
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Oe was an exceptional writer — the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1994 — and an exceptional man.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Apr. 2023
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In 1997, the Ig Nobel Prize in medicine went to a trio of researchers for their discovery that listening to Muzak stimulates the immune system and may help prevent the common cold.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
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That year, the Frankfurt conference coincided with the announcement of the winner of the Nobel Prize, and Alexievich was considered one of the front-runners to win.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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The Japan Prize is one of the most coveted awards in science and technology and has, for some recipients, been a precursor to winning the Nobel Prize.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
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In Patton’s opinion, Pretorius could and should have been considered for the Nobel Prize, if the award were ever given to more than three scientists.
—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
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Alongside them at the ceremony, two physicists who won the 2023 Nobel Prize were also awarded with knighthood.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 June 2024
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Livingstone counters that her work builds on Nobel Prize–winning science that helped treat vision loss in children.
—Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 19 Oct. 2022
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In this spare tale of disorientation and longing, by the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, a man gets stranded on a back road in a forest and wanders deep into the trees.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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Kundera’s name was often floated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the honor eluded him.
—Elaine Ganley, Fortune, 12 July 2023
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Entanglement experiments, such as those that won the 2022 Nobel Prize, have now grown routine.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
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And that discovery was made by Daniel Shechtman, who got the Nobel Prize eventually, in chemistry, for the discovery of quasicrystals.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
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