The word accolade has appeared in 26 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 4 in “Chemistry Nobel Prize Revealed in Media Hours Early” by Aaron Boxerman and Emma Bubola:
Nobel laureates’ names have slipped out prematurely before. In 2019, the poet Katarina Frostenson, a member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, left after an investigation found that her husband had repeatedly leaked the names of winners.
This year’s chemistry Nobel laureates — Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov — were selected for their discovery and development of quantum dots, used in LED lights and television screens and to help guide surgeons as they remove cancer tissue. At least one of the recipients still described the accolade as unexpected.
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