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 ...

As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur has ... way to make nitroglycerin safer to use ...

Based on past Nobel laureates, Elon Musk is an overwhelmingly deserving candidate for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, bequeathed his fortune to fund the prizes, which are worth 11 million Swedish krona (roughly $1 million). Recent winners include Katalin Karikó and ...

In his handwritten will, Alfred Nobel stipulated ... from the lighter, from dynamite, from a past made from nitroglycerine, and still later from his invention of smokeless powder, came the ...

The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century businessman ... claim to fame before the Nobel Prizes was having invented dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine with a compound that ...

The one in Economics to be announced next Monday is the only award not based on the will of the prize donor and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). The awards ceremony traditionally takes ...

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 ...