Known as the 'dynamite king,' he emerged from a family with ties to weaponry; his father, Immanuel, supplied armaments during the Crimean War, while Alfred ... the Nobel Foundation. The first ...

Alfred Nobel, the reclusive inventor of dynamite, probably had little idea of the explosive ... After some legal wrangling by Nobel's family, the first prizes ...

Are these prizes, first awarded in 1901 ... one guilt-ridden scientist's final will and testament -- Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Nobel's goal was to reward outstanding science to "those ...

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 ...

In his handwritten will, Alfred ... One of his first inventions was the Nobel lighter, a method of discharging nitroglycerine with a percussion spark; from the lighter, from dynamite, from a ...

Jessica Palud’s portrait of the actress, who starred, with Marlon Brando, in “Last Tango in Paris,” centers the abuse that Schneider endured on that shoot, and its lifelong aftereffects. The ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...

For the discovery of dynamite and other cognate ... a debt of gratitude to the late Alfred Nobel, the famous Swedish scientist and chemist, since he was the first to turn to practical purposes ...