Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science ...

On the tenth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen of Norway and the four other members of the Nobel committee gathered in Oslo to announce the recipient of the 1906 ...

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, and his transition from arms manufacturer to founder of the Nobel Prize is intriguing. Known as the 'dynamite king,' he emerged from a family with ties ...

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The Nobel Committee must award the prize based on results, not ideology. The Abraham Accords brought tangible peace to a ...

John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony. Alicia Nash. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial giant and inventor, did not include economics when he put together his 1894 will and created prizes in physics ...

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 ...

It said the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo is securely anchored in Alfred Nobel’s will to honor those who have performed the greatest or most outstanding activities ...

This year it is highly probably that two authors will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Prize for 1949 was held over because the members of the Swedish Academy could not agree on any ...