Alfred Nobel, also known as Alfred Bernhard Nobel, was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Alfred was born into the prominent ...

SWEDEN - NOVEMBER 11: Medal for the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to British physicist Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) in 1906. The design shows a relief profile of Alfred Nobel, designed and ...

The Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world – but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur has ...

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, and his transition from arms manufacturer to founder of the Nobel Prize is intriguing. Known as the 'dynamite king,' he emerged from a family with ties to ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The Nobel prizes are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday. The awards, which are also given for achievements in physics, ...

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. My wife and I share Swedish ancestry, so we knew from the time we were young that the Nobel Peace Prize is ...

The namesake of the famous prize believed that more destructive weapons would make war unthinkable. Few people believe that anymore – but we have new delusions to contend with. More than a century ...

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards worldwide, established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, engineer, and industrialist, famous for inventing dynamite. In his will, Nobel ...

Alfred B. Nobel’s 1895 will reads, in part: “All of my remaining realisable assets are to be disbursed as follows: the capital, converted to safe securities by my executors, is to constitute a fund, ...