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 ...

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 ...

There are obvious answers, like Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite as well as his namesake prize. Then there are social inventions like Jenna Karvunidis, the woman who popularized gender reveal ...

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 prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were created in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since 1901.

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 ...

Established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and chemist Alfred Nobel, the prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace have been awarded since 1901 with a few interruptions ...