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Noam Sobel
Noam Sobel is an Israeli neuroscientist who studies the brain mechanisms of human smell, heading olfactory research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
Noam Soker
Noam Soker is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist, born in 1958, a full professor at the Technion known for the core-degenerate model of Type Ia supernovae and the jittering-jet mechanism.
NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey
The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) was a deep optical and near-infrared survey of 18 square degrees of sky, begun by NOAO in 1999 to study how large-scale structure evolves.
Noatak
Noatak: a large clearwater river in northwestern Alaska flowing from the Schwatka Mountains to Kotzebue Sound, and the 6.6-million-acre Noatak National Preserve (ANILCA, 1980) protecting its watershed, home to Iñupiat subsistence for over 11,000 years.
Nob
Nob (Hebrew נֹב) was a priestly town in Benjamin near Jerusalem, where David received the consecrated bread and Goliath's sword, and where Saul massacred the priests.
Noba migration into Lower Nubia
The Noba migration into Lower Nubia was the settling of Nubian-speaking Noba on the Nile in the 4th and 5th centuries AD, ending Meroitic rule.
Nobatia
Nobatia, also Nobadia, was the northernmost of the three Nubian kingdoms after the fall of Meroe, ruling Lower Nubia from the First to the Third Cataract from about 410 AD.
Nobble
Nobble, also called Bump, Bonk, Motor or Tuppenny Ha'penny Bump, is a British matching card game from Bolton, Lancashire, a variant of Snip Snap Snorum where matched players pay coins and the last player with coins wins.
Nobby Stiles
Nobby Stiles (Norbert Peter Stiles), English midfielder, 1966 World Cup winner with England and 1968 European Cup winner with Manchester United; 28 England caps; died 2020 with CTE-linked dementia.
Nobel Hygiene
Nobel Hygiene Limited is an Indian manufacturer of adult and baby diapers and sanitary napkins, founded in 2001 and known for the Friends and Teddyy brands.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, often called the Nobel Prize in economics, is an annual award established by Sweden's central bank, first given in 1969.
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize (Nobels fredspris): annual award by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member panel appointed by Norway's Storting, under Alfred Nobel's will. Decided in Oslo, confidential nominations for 50 years; awarded 106 times to 143 laureates since 1901; cannot be revoked.
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize: annual awards from Alfred Nobel's 1895 will in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, plus the 1968 economics memorial prize; first awarded 1901, ceremonies each December 10.
Nobel Prize controversies
Nobel Prize controversies: disputes over laureate selection since 1901, including the three-person limit, omissions like Tolstoy and Franklin, the 1973 Kissinger peace prize, and the 2018 literature cancellation.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, first awarded in 1901 under Alfred Nobel's will.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur): annual literary prize awarded by the Swedish Academy under Alfred Nobel's 1895 will; 119 prizes to 123 laureates 1901–2026, SEK 12 million, ~350 nominations yearly, 50-year secrecy.
Nobel Prize in Literature controversies
Nobel Prize in Literature controversies: recurring disputes over the Swedish Academy's choices since 1901, including the 1901 Tolstoy omission, Cold War politics, the 1989 Rushdie resignations, and the 2018 Arnault scandal that canceled the prize.
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics, or Nobelpriset i fysik, is an annual international physics prize awarded in Stockholm by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1901.
Nobel Prize in Physics controversies
Nobel Prize in Physics controversies cover the 1901-2024 record of criticized awards and exclusions: Einstein denied relativity credit, Lise Meitner's fission exclusion, the three-laureate cap, and the disputed 2024 AI prize.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, annual award under Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, given since 1901 by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet for major life-science discoveries; 2025 went to Brunkow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi, 2026 to Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel for optogenetics.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for neuroscience research
Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have honored neuroscience since 1906, when Golgi and Cajal shared the first, through at least 17 prizes and 40 laureates to 2021.
Nobel Sport
Nobel Sport is a French ammunition manufacturer headquartered in Paris, known for hunting shotshells and powders produced at its Pont-de-Buis plant in Brittany, part of Sofisport.
Nobelium
Nobelium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with symbol No and atomic number 102, the tenth actinide, named after Alfred Nobel and produced only in particle accelerators.
Nobell Foods
Nobell Foods, also known as Alpine Bio, is a South San Francisco biotechnology company founded in 2016 by Magi Richani that makes cheese from engineered soybeans.
Nobile (lunar crater)
Nobile is a 79.27-km-wide impact crater at 85.28°S, 53.27°E near the Moon's south pole, IAU-named in 1994 for Italian explorer Umberto Nobile; NASA's VIPER rover and Artemis candidate sites target its western rim for water ice.
Nobility
Nobility: a hereditary legal status above commoners, distinct from aristocracy (the leading noble families). Covers origins, European consolidation 1300–1750, ministeriales, Chinese aristocracy's fall, and modern peerages.
Nobita Nobi (野比 のび太)
Nobita Nobi (野比 のび太), also called Noby, is the protagonist of Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon: a lazy, kind-hearted 10-year-old fourth-grader, bullied by Gian and Suneo, helped by the robot cat Doraemon, with talents in marksmanship and cat's cradle.
Noble (song)
"Noble" (also NOBLE) is a 2025 alternative R&B single by Nigerian-Irish artist F3miii, self-produced in Dublin, viral on TikTok, peaking at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, with a June 2026 remix featuring The Kid LAROI.
Noble and Greenough School
Noble and Greenough School (Nobles), independent coed day and 5-day boarding school for grades 7-12 in Dedham, Massachusetts. Founded 1866 in Boston; moved to a 173-acre Charles River campus in 1922; coeducational since 1974; about 639 students, 6:1 student-faculty ratio.
Noble Aspirations (青云志)
Noble Aspirations (青云志, The Legend of Chusen) is a 2016 Chinese xianxia TV series adapted from Xiao Ding's novel Zhu Xian, produced by Huanrui Century, starring Li Yifeng, Zhao Liying, and Yang Zi, premiering July 31, 2016 on Hunan TV in 55 episodes with a stated 280-million-yuan budget.