As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur has left a lasting legacy with the annual prizes he established in 1901 for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine ...

The ceremonies take place on December 10, the day that Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the award’s founder and funder, died. His will created what are widely seen as the premier awards in science ...

Does an invention help people or hurt people? Can an invention do both? Let us look at an example: the invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist. While Nobel was in ...

Seated: Jerome Karle (1985) and Roald Hoffman (1981). Alfred Nobel, the reclusive inventor of dynamite, probably had little idea of the explosive impact his posthumous wishes would have on society.

In his handwritten will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that “no ... One of his first inventions was the Nobel lighter, a method of discharging nitroglycerine with a percussion spark; from the lighter ...

fully in tune with the intentions of Alfred Nobel. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honours discoveries and inventions in optics that have profoundly shaped our daily life 1. Charles K. Kao won ...

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, bequeathed his fortune to fund the prizes, which are worth 11 million Swedish krona (roughly $1 million). Recent winners include Katalin Karikó and ...

John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony. Alicia Nash. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial giant and inventor, did not include economics when he put together his 1894 will and created prizes in physics ...

Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite was a terrifying new addition to mankind's growing arsenal of destruction. Ironically, it also spawned the Nobel Peace Prize Sebastian Thrun on the Future of ...