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 ...

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, ...

Does economics deserve a Nobel? Some descendants of Alfred B. Nobel, the 19th-century Swedish chemist and industrialist who created the awards, say absolutely not. And they want the economics prize to ...

Alfred Nobel believed he would be remembered as an inventor, until a newspaper revealed a very different judgment. While still alive, he discovered the world saw him as a man who profited from death ...

When Swedish munitions and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel died, in 1896, in San Remo, Italy, he bequeathed what amounted to an immense fortune. His stated goal was to endow, in perpetuity, those ...

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, ...

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 ...