Nobel

Definition: Nobel

Nobel

Noun

1. Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Nobel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

"Nobel" is a common misspelling or typo for: noble.

Synonyms: Nobel

Crosswords: Nobel

Dutch (noble), German (classy, extravagant, generous, handsome, lavish, Nobel, noble, nobly, posh, ritzy, swish), Serbo-Croatian (nobel).

I've a strong suspicion we should have been rocket scientists, or Nobel Peace Prize winners or something. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You know, I studied under a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and you know what he taught me? (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I think you should try some of that Nobel Prize winner sperm. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

Whaddaya think, a fly? Am I becoming a hundred-and-eighty-five-pound fly? I may be becoming something that's never existed before. I'm becoming Brundlefly. Don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two? (The Fly; writing credit: David Cronenberg; George Langelaan)

Then I should be hearing from the Nobel committee any day now. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

El Premio Nobel del amor (1972)

The Story of Alfred Nobel (1939)

Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2002)

Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite (1983)

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References

• Akzo Nobel N.V.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Nobel Biocare AB (publ): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures (reference)

• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash (reference)

• Alfred Nobel and the Story of the Nobel Prize (The Great Achiever Awards) (reference)

• A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (reference)

• Sources of Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare: The Reign of King Edward Iii, Sir Thomas More, the History of Cardenio, the Two Nobel Kinsmen (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gorbachev Awarded Nobel Peace (reference)

• Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Georg Solti: Nobel Jubilee Concert (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Front of the medal of the Nobel Prize, featuring a profile of Alfred Nobel.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics ...Credit: NASA.

Figure 43. Bergius pneumatic sounder. No documentation could be found for the design, construction, or testing of this instrument. It is probable that this instrument was created in the early Twentieth Century by Friedrich Bergius, a 1931 Nobel Prize winner, for study of high pressure chemical reactions.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Marshall Nirenberg's Nobel Prize medal and citation ...Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Centenaire de Jules Bordet : Prix Nobel de Médecine 1919.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?".Credit: Library of Congress.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the invention of the transistor, co-inventors William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain being honored during the IEEE INTERCON in New York City. Each of the Nobel Laureates receiving a special gold medal dona.Credit: Library of Congress.

Vincent du Vigneaud, Nobel prize winner in chemistry, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing slightly left.Credit: Library of Congress.

Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1936, half-length portrait, facing right, standing at a podium, speaking.Credit: Library of Congress.

To the Nobel Peace Prize Committee -- the undersigned direct this petition to your attention for the purpose of suggesting ...Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Among them are 97 scientists who have won the Nobel Prize for achievement in medicine. (references)

Famous people who are known or rumored to have had epilepsy include the Russian writer Dostoyevsky, the philosopher Socrates, the military general Napoleon, and the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel prize. (references)

Business

Major paint manufacturers are Akzo Nobel and Becker. (references)

The largest chemical company, Nobel Industries AB, merged in 1994 with the Dutch company Akzo to become Akzo Nobel, with head office in Netherlands. (references)

Eka Chemicals (owned by Akzo Nobel) is the only remaining large producer of chlorine for retail sale. In the pulp bleaching process, chlorine has been completely replaced by oxygen, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen peroxide, and ozone applied in special sequences. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

However, some observers saw the decision of senior government officials not to meet with the mainland-born Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, during the his January visit to Hong Kong as deference to PRC displeasure with the award to the exiled writer. (references)

Burma

During the year, Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to attend a ceremony in Oslo honoring her on the 10th anniversary of her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. On August 24, 2000, she was prevented from traveling to an NLD party meeting in Kungyangon, in the near vicinity of Rangoon, resulting in a 9-day roadside standoff, during which time she was denied access to her political followers. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Arias' efforts earned him the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Also in August, indigenous leader and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum announced that she would solicit the assistance of a Mexican forensic anthropology team to work in conducting exhumations. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

Since October 2000, the Government has met with NLD general secretary and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi regarding the terms of a potential future transition to democracy. (references)

Travel

Sweden

The Christmas celebration actually begins when the country shuts down for the Nobel prize ceremonies December 10, and the St Lucia festival December 13. Business is usually back to normal after Orthodox Christmas in January. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "Nobel": Alfred Bernhard Nobel ♦ Alfred Nobel ♦ Nobel Laureate ♦ nobel peace prize ♦ nobel peace prizewinner ♦ Nobel prize ♦ nobel prize winner ♦ Nobel prizes ♦ nobel prizewinner. Additional references.

Beginning with "Nobel": nobel-minded, Nobel-prize-winning.

Chinese 

諾貝爾 , 诺贝�". (various references)

Czech

nositel nobelovy ceny (nobel prize winner). (various references)

Danish

Nobel-stiftelsen (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Nobel-prismodtager (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Nobel-pris (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner). (various references)

Dutch

Nobelstichting (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Nobelprijswinnaar (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Nobelprijs (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner). (various references)

Finnish

Nobel-kirjailija (Nobel laureate, Nobel prize-winning writer). (various references)

French

nobel de la paix (nobel peace prizewinner), Prix Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Lauréat du Prix Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), lauréat du prix de nobel (nobel prizewinner), Fondation Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner). (various references)

German

Nobel (classy, extravagant, generous, handsome, lavish, noble, nobly, posh, ritzy, swish). (various references)

Greek 

Νόμπελ. (various references)

Hungarian

Nobel-díj (Nobel prize). (various references)

Indonesian

agung (august, exalted, grand, lofty). (various references)

Italian

vincitore del Premio Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Premio Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Fondazione Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ノースウェスト准州 (copy-book, Do not touch!, exercise book, know-how, no bra, no brand, no frost, no outs, No parking, no play, No smoking, no time, nobelium, noble, node, no-hit no-run game, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest, Northwest Territories, NOTAM, notebook, notice to airmen, notorious, panty-less, sleeveless, wearing no underwear, without a helmet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ノーベル . (various references)

Korean 

노벨. (various references)

Pig Latin

obelnay

Portuguese

próprio de aristocracia (nobel prize winner), Prémio Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Galardoado com o Prémio Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), Fundação Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner). (various references)

Russian 

нобель нобелевский. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nobel. (various references)

Spanish

Premio Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), ganador del Premio Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner), ganador del premio nóbel (nobel prize winner), Fundación Nobel (Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winner). (various references)

Swedish

ädelmodig (generous, high minded, nobel-minded). (various references)

Turkish

nobel barış ödülü (nobel peace prize), nobel ödülü (nobel prize). (various references)

Vietnamese 

giải thưởng Nô-ben (nobel prize). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Nobel": nobelium, nobeliums. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nobel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jobtel, Nabaglo, Nabeel, nabel, Nabeul, Ndobe, Nebel, Neibel, Neogel, nibel, Niobe, nobal, Nobay, nobey, Nobi, nobil, Nobre, Nobu, Nooble, Norbec, Noubir, Obel, Oebel. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: noble.

-1 letter: bole, bone, ebon, enol, leno, lobe, lone, noel.

-2 letters: bel, ben, eon, lob, neb, nob, obe, ole, one.

-3 letters: be, bo, el, en, lo, ne, no, oe, on.

+1 letter: belong, benzol, blonde, nobble, nobler, nobles.

+2 letters: abalone, baloney, beclown, belongs, benomyl, benzole, benzols, benzoyl, binocle, blonder, blondes, boloney, borneol, bowline, englobe, ennoble, ignoble, lobefin, nelumbo, nobbled, nobbler, nobbles, noblest, nombles, notable, ownable, unlobed.

+3 letters: abalones, atonable, ballonet, ballonne, baloneys, banderol, bannerol, beanpole, beclowns, beholden, belonged, benomyls, benzoles, benzoyls, binocles, bioclean, blazoned, blazoner, blondest, bludgeon, bluenose, boldness, boloneys, bondable, boneless, bonemeal, bonspell, bonspiel, borneols, bovinely, boweling, bowlines, brokenly, bromelin, bullnose, bunghole, coinable, conglobe, doblones, elbowing, emblazon, embolden, englobed, englobes, ennobled, ennobler, ennobles, imbolden, joinable, knoblike, knowable, loanable, lobefins, lobeline, nebulose, nebulous, nelumbos, nobblers, nobelium, nobleman, noblemen, noblesse, notables, nubilose, openable, snowbell, snowbelt, stonable, tailbone, unbolted, undoable, undouble, unilobed, wellborn.

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