On 27 November 1897 the multi-millionaire Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament establishing a foundation to ...

Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, established the Nobel Prizes, celebrating achievement and reflecting on the impact of ...

The Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel was a very successful businessman. The Swedish-Russian inventor of dynamite and his two older brothers are primarily responsible for greatly influencing the early ...

Shutterstock The Nobel Prize is perhaps the best known prize in the world. It is given out each year to people in a variety ...

For more than 100 years, the Nobel Prizes have recognized the finest in human achievements, from literature and science to the Nobel Peace Prize, which is given "to the person who shall have done the ...

Alfred Nobel's will clearly outlined that the Peace Prize, unlike the other Nobel awards, should be presented in Norway—not Sweden—but he never explained why. Scholars suggest a mix of reasons: Norway ...

Indian-origin V S Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 'for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible ...