"nob" značenje u engleski leksikon

Množina: nobs

Chiefly British; one in a superior position in life

Množina: nobs

(Homonym: knob).
(Slang) The head of a person.
A jack of the same suit as the starter in cribbage that scores one point for the holder — usually used in the phrases his nob or his nobs.

Množina: Nob Hills

A fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco.

To disable by drugging, as of a race horse.

Chic, smart

(Bernhard) (1833-1896) Swedish chemist and engineer. He invented dynamite in 1867, gelignite 1875, and ballistite, a smokeless gunpowder, in 1887. Having amassed a large fortune from the manufacture of explosives and the exploitation of the Baku oil fields in Azerbaijan, near the Caspian Sea, he left this in trust for the endowment of five Nobel Prizes.
Nobel was born in Stockholm and studied in Europe and North America. During the Crimean War 1853–56, Nobel worked in St Petersburg, Russia, in his father's company, which produced large quantities of munitions. After the war his father went bankrupt, and in 1859 the family returned to Sweden. During the next few years Nobel developed several new explosives and factories for making them. In 1864, a nitroglycerine factory blew up, killing Nobel's younger brother and four other people.
In 1863 Nobel invented a mercury fulminate detonator for use with nitroglycerine. Dynamite was invented to make the handling of nitroglycerine safer, by mixing it with kieselguhr, a porous diatomite mineral. Gelignite, a colloidal solution of nitrocellulose (gun cotton) in nitroglycerine, was safer still: less sensitive to shock and strongly resistant to moisture.
Nobel also worked in electrochemistry, optics, biology, and physiology, and helped to solve many problems in the manufacture of artificial silk, leather, and rubber.
He did not endow a prize for mathematics after his wife ran off with a mathematician.

Množina: Nobel laureates

Množina: Nobel Peace Prizes

Množina: Nobel Prizes

An annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace.
Annual international prize, first awarded 1901 under the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, who invented dynamite. The interest on the Nobel endowment fund is divided annually among the persons who have made the greatest contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and world peace.
The first four are awarded by academic committees based in Sweden, while the peace prize is awarded by a committee of the Norwegian parliament. A sixth prize, for economics, financed by the Swedish National Bank, was first awarded 1969. The prizes have a large cash award and are given to organizations—such as the United Nations peacekeeping forces, which received the Nobel Peace Prize 1988—as well as individuals.

Množina: Nobel Prize for Literatures

International prize awarded annually by a committee based in Sweden. It was first awarded 1901 under the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. Literature is one of six fields to receive Nobel Prizes, the others being physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, and world peace. The interest on the Nobel fund is divided annually among the people (or organizations) who have made the greatest contributions in these fields. For recent winners, see Nobel Prize.

Množina: Nobel Prize winners

Množina: Nobelists

Winner of a Nobel Prize; Also called: Nobel Laureate.

Množina: nobelia

Synthesized, radioactive, metallic element of the actinide series, symbol No, atomic number 102, atomic weight 259. It is synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon nuclei.
It was named in 1957 after the Nobel Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where it was claimed to have been first synthesized. Later evaluations determined that this was in fact not so, as the successful 1958 synthesis at the University of California at Berkeley produced a different set of data. The name was not, however, challenged. In 1992 the International Unions for Pure and Applied Chemistry and Physics (IUPAC and IUPAP) gave credit to Russian scientists in Dubna for the discovery of nobelium.
A radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known; SYN. No, atomic number 102.

Umberto 1885-1978 Italian arctic explorer and aeronautical engineer.

Of or relating to nobility; pertaining to nobility. nobiliary particle, preposition indicating nobility, e.g. de (French) or von (German).