Alfred Nobel, famously known as the 'dynamite king,' seemed an unlikely figure to establish a peace prize. His family had a ...

Evelyn Rose: So it’s titled “The first dynamite factory in America. Giant powder company, under personal license of inventor Alfred Nobel, began producing dynamite here on March, 1868. On November 26, ...

Dynamite soon became popular in construction ... body that insists its only mission is to carry out the will of Alfred Nobel. However, it does have links to Norway’s political system.

The Nobel Prizes were established by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will, aiming to honor advancements in science, literature, and peace. The first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 was ...

And they started because of this guy, Alfred Nobel. He was an engineer and inventor who was born in Sweden in 1833. One of his most famous inventions was dynamite. It was really useful for ...

The honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. The others are prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine, as well as the Nobel ...

shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind” Though Alfred Nobel amassed his fortune through his discoveries of nitroglycerin, dynamite, and blasting powder—earning him the ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to three economists, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson on 14 ...

Lee died aged 97, after a lifetime of nurturing talent and building China’s sci-tech sector through academic and practical programmes. A set of annual international awards established by Swedish ...