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

1002. If you enter Glen Canyon Park from Elk street, you’ll see it. Evelyn Rose: So it’s titled “The first dynamite factory in America. Giant powder company, under personal license of inventor Alfred ...

The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century businessman ... claim to fame before the Nobel Prizes was having invented dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine with a compound that ...

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 ...

The economics prize is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The central bank established it in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel, the 19th-century ...

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 economics prize is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred ... to Nobel, the 19th-century Swedish businessman and chemist who invented dynamite ...

While all Nobel Prizes are awarded in Sweden, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway. This was Nobel's specific wish, though no one is entirely sure why he wanted it this way ...

The Nobel Prizes were established by the 1895 will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. First handed out in 1901, they are awarded to those who — during the previous ...

The Nobel memorial prize in economics has been awarded to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely ...

Research into inequality has featured strongly in recent awards. Last year, Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the prize for her work highlighting the causes of wage and labour market ...