The Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world—but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur ...

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

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist, included the Peace Prize in his will, stating it should go to the ...

A member of the Nobel family is backing a US wealth management firm that’s seeking to scale up through acquisitions. A relative of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the ...

Alfred was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. His father, Immanuel Nobel, worked as an engineer and inventor, building bridges and experimenting with different methods to blast rocks ...

For 2023 the prize money on offer increased to 11 million crowns, worth roughly $1 million.. How is the Nobel Prize funded? That initial 31 million crowns is worth around 1.8 billion crowns in ...

The Nobel in economics is sort of the step-cousin of the Nobel family. It came about nearly 70 years after its literature and sciences counterparts, in 1969, and is technically called the ...

In December 1896, Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, inventor and industrialist, died. He was 63 years old. He left behind no wife or children. What he did leave was money. A lot of money. So it was ...

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 ...

Alfred and his father, alongside the Nobel family’s youngest son Emil, experimented with nitroglycerin in Stockholm. The findings of these experiments made momentous contributions to ...

A relative of Alfred Nobel, ... “Members of the Nobel family have really turbocharged the growth effort,” Waring, 59, a former fixed-income trader, said in an interview on the firm, ...