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, ...

The beginning of his life as a Nobel laureate in chemistry had to wait until morning. He was still in his pajamas when the first journalist got him on the phone. He scolded her for asking whether he ...

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 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 ...

STOCKHOLM - The Nobel ... in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The central bank established it in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel, the 19th-century Swedish businessman and chemist who invented dynamite and ...

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...

The economics award is not one of the original prizes for science, literature and peace created in the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901, but a later ...

The economics award is not one of the original prizes for science, literature and peace created in the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901, but a later ...