Alfred Bernhard Nobel
1833-1896
Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize trust. After studying mechanical engineering in Russia and the United States, Nobel was employed a...
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel
1833-1896
Swedish Chemist, Engineer and Industrialist
As the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel amassed great wealth producing instruments of destruction. He left the majority of...
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The Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) invented dynamite and other explosives, but he is best remembered for the Nobel Prizes, which he endowed with the bulk of his personal fortune.Alf...
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Owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, Nobel is best known as the discoverer of dynamite and the man who upon his death bequeathed much of his large estate to support the annu...
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Owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, Nobel is best known as the discoverer of dynamite and the man who upon his death bequeathed much of his large estate to support the annu...
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The Greek capital hardly springs immediately to mind as the home for a shrine to the 19th century Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.
But letters from Victor Hugo, Ru...
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The Early PioneerThe first step towards dynamite was taken in 1846, when the
Italian chemist
Ascanio
Sobrero
invented nitroglycerine. It was a crucial moment in history, but
Sobrero
would later...
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Hamburg (dpa) - The Alternative Nobel Prize is awarded to people
or organizations that have found solutions to pressing human
problems. Awards are given for achievements in ...
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Oslo (dpa) - Hollywood star Sharon Stone raised a few eyebrows in
Norway after a late entrance to the banquet hosted in honour of Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, ...
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Stockholm (dpa) - The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday
to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin und Roger Myerson of the United
States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Scienc...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Ill health has forced the 2007 Nobel Literature
Prize winner Doris Lessing to cancel her trip to attend the
traditional ceremonies in connection with the p...
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Oslo (dpa) - The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 was awarded to
Muhammad Yunus, the 66-year-old Bangladeshi behind the Grameen
Movement micro-banking system that has helped milli...
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Stockholm (dpa) - A trio of US economists Monday shared the Nobel
Prize for Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced,
citing Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin an...
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Oct 15 (Reuters) - Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin
and Roger B. Myerson won the 2007 Nobel for economics "for
having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory",
the prize committee at the Roy...
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Oslo (dpa) - A Polish woman who helped save Jewish children during
World War II and former US vice president Al Gore were among
favourites to win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize,...
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Athens: New Alfred Nobel Museum
