Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, established the Nobel Prizes, celebrating achievement and reflecting on the impact of ...
Alfred Nobel is remembered today as the founder of the Nobel Prize, a symbol of peace, science, and progress. But his life tells a far more complicated story. As the inventor of dynamite, Nobel made ...
- Nobel hoped that the destructiveness of dynamite, the 1866 invention that made him rich, would help bring an end to war. - He was friends with a well-known peace campaigner, Bertha von Suttner. Some ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Swedish businessman and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, in his will signed in 1895, set up a number of prizes awarded each year that have become some of the most prestigious in the ...