Nobel Prize (Noun)
Meaning
An annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the role of genes in cell death, and for identifying a new family of cell death regulators.
- Her influential and passionate speeches made her a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize several times.
- Toni Morrison, a novelist and Nobel laureate, taught English at Yale and other universities before devoting herself to writing full-time.
- Sally Ride, an American physicist and astronaut, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012, for her discovery of gravitational waves from two neutron stars that were detected for the first time in the United States.