Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, and his transition from arms manufacturer to founder of the Nobel Prize is ...

Nobel's first ever patent was an English patent for a gas meter in 1857, but he quickly began filing patents related to ...

The winners of this year's Nobel Prizes are to receive their awards in Oslo and Stockholm on Tuesday. Nihon Hidankyō, the ...

This investigation led to the discovery of dynamite. The commercialization of dynamite brought Nobel the riches that are the basis of the Nobel foundation. Surely, applied scientific research in ...

Does an invention help people or hurt people? Can an invention do both? Let us look at an example: the invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist. While Nobel was in ...

The quote is from the will of Swedish businessman - and inventor of dynamite - Alfred Nobel. He left most of his fortune in a fund to launch the awards, which were first presented in 1901.

That same year, Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel patented another blasting explosive called dynamite. Dynamite is based on nitroglycerin but is much safer to handle than nitroglycerin alone.

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 ...