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Nobel Prize
The international prizes founded by Alfred Nobel and awarded each year in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics. Japanese winners receive intense national attention, and the October announcements are major news.
ノーベル賞をとった。
He won the Nobel Prize.
The category follows the name: ノーベル物理学賞 (physics), ノーベル文学賞 (literature), ノーベル平和賞 (peace).
Common collocations
- ノーベル賞を受賞する: to receive the Nobel Prize
- ノーベル賞をとる: to win the Nobel Prize (spoken)
- ノーベル賞受賞者: Nobel laureate
- ノーベル賞候補: a Nobel Prize contender
Cultural note
Each October the media speculate about possible Japanese winners, and for years reporters waited outside Haruki Murakami's publisher on the day of the literature prize.
Related Words
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湯川秀樹 (Yukawa Hideki (physicist))