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 scientist, inventor, ... When the will was read, his family was shocked and opposed it, with the prizes finally beginning in 1901.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed and others fail.

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, ...