T he 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 ...

The Nobel Prize was established following the will of the Swedish businessman, dynamite inventor and philanthropist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. He allocated his entire fortune (about 31.5 million ...

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 ...

Since 1901, the Nobel prizes have been awarded to men, women and organisations for work that has led to great advances for humankind, in line with the wishes of inventor Alfred Nobel. Here are ...

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’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been ... Blobel, together with Bernhard Dobberstein, formulated the ‘signal hypothesis’. In a 1975 paper — which has since become ...