A nobel
[noh-bel] /noʊˈbɛl/
noun
alfred bernhard
[ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (show ipa), 1833–96, swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
can be confused
n-bel, n-ble (see synonym study at n-ble)
n-bel
/nəʊˈbɛl/
noun
alfred bernhard (ˈalfreːd ˈbæːrnhard). 1833–96, swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite (1866) and his bequest founding the n-bel prizes
n-bel
1900, in reference to five prizes (in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace) established in the will of alfred n-bel (1833-1896), swedish chemist and engineer, inventor of dynamite. a sixth prize, in economics, was added in 1969. related: n-belist.
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