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Nobel Laureate

Nobel Laureate

8 4.2
A person who has a Nobel Prize
  • noun
  • /noʊˈbɛl ˈlɔːriˌeɪt/
translation icon : laureado del Nobel
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Examples

  • Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate, laureate professor and author, once wrote we must always take sides.

  • Max Plunk, a Nobel laureate in physics, wrote songs in operas.

  • As Robert Ross, the Nobel Laureate, has put it,

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  • What do you say about the youngest Nobel laureate in history?

  • I studied under a Nobel Laureate of Economics at Cambridge and I think even she'd say 10 was high.

  • Franck was a Nobel laureate from Germany who escaped from Hitler.

  • I recently looked into the work of Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and got a reminder of why specialization is such a problem.

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  • In early December 2001, just 3 months after the horrific events of September 11, over 200 Nobel Laureates gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, to commemorate the centenary of the first awards and to reflect on a century of accomplishments.

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  • What do you think about the youngest Nobel laureate in history?

  • James M. Buchanan was the 1986 Nobel laureate in Economics and his work is highly regarded.

Synonyms

Nobelist
vsNobel Laureate
1 7.0

A person who has a Nobel Prize

has identical meaning but is an alternate form used for the same referent

Surface Forms

Morphology

Nobel + laureate

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Nobel' (relating to the Nobel prizes) with 'laureate' (a person formally awarded for notable achievement). This noun+noun composition is compositional and cross-linguistically supported by cognates (e.g. lauréat/laureado), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

Nobel Laureate combines the name Nobel (the prize's founder) and laureate, an old word for someone crowned with a laurel wreath. Picture a winner wearing a crown of leaves to show honor and victory, so Nobel Laureate means 'a person who has been awarded a Nobel Prize'.