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Where does “Nobel” come from?

Nobel is from Swedish Nobel, the surname of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite.

Nobel (English): A Nobel Prize

Definitions

  1. A Nobel Prize

Ancestry of “Nobel”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SwedishNobel—

Words derived from “Nobel”

  • Nobelist
  • nobelium
  • 諾貝爾
  • nobelium
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