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  Der Nobelpreis - Alfred Nobel und die vollständige Chronik der Nobelpreisträger
Er wurde vom schwedischen Erfinder und Industriellen Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) gestiftet.
Eine Ausnahme bildet der Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ("Preis für Ökonomische Wissenschaften in Erinnerung an Alfred Nobel"), der seit 1969 von der Sveriges Riksban, der schwedischen Reichsbank in Erinnerung an Nobel gestiftet wird.
Mitte der 60er Jahre machte Alfred Nobel seine größte Entdeckung: das 1867 patentierte Dynamit.1875 konnte er eine verbesserte Variante, die Sprenggelatine patentieren.
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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Nobel prize   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, awarded to people (and also to organizations in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize) who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
Although Nobel's will established the prizes, because his plan was incomplete and due to various other hurdles, it took five years before the Nobel Foundation could be established and the first prizes awarded in 1901.
A common legend states that Nobel decided against a prize in mathematics because a woman he proposed to (or his wife, or his mistress) rejected him or cheated on him with a famous mathematician, often claimed to be Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
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 Alfred Nobel Summary
Nobel turned his attention to the development of safe packaging for dangerous chemicals (his brother was killed in an 1864 explosion), and in 1867 successfully cushioned nitroglycerin in organic material to produce dynamite.
Alfred Nobel is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.
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 CNN.com
Nobel laureates were often at the forefront of dramatic change in the 20th century, which saw an accelerated rate of scientific discoveries, along with two world wars and tremendous social upheaval.
Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, the child of Immanuel Nobel, an engineer and inventor, and Andrietta Ahlsell.
Nobel specified that prizes in science and literature were to be awarded by a Swedish committee, while the peace prize was to be given out by a Norwegian panel.
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 Alfred Nobel Biography (1833-1896)
Owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, Nobel is bestknown as the discoverer of dynamite and the man who upon his death bequeathed much of his large estate to support the annual Nobel Prizes for accomplishments in physics, chemistry, economics, science and medicine, literature, andthe promotion of peace.
In Nobel's mind, all that remained was to devise a special blasting charge to ensure a predictable detonation of the nitroglycerine by shock rather than heat, which he already knew tobe a dangerously imperfect firing method.
Nobel died in 1896 but despite his long and successful career developing andmanufacturing explosives he was a devoted humanitarian who wished to aid efforts that might bring about lasting peace as well as beneficial advancements in technology.
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 nobel life history
Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prizes, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 21st, 1833.
The Nobel's factory was therefore rejected by the community and forced to move to a pontoon on Lake Malaren.
Nobel Foundation was established with the support from the family of Ludvig, Alfred's brother.
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 Emil Richards - GRP Records
In 1963 he met American composer Harry Partch, and sponsored his move along with all his instruments to L A. Emil was connected with the composer and his music as a performer until the composer’s death in 1974.
Emil has played in the film studios in between all of his other activities, and in the 1980’s, he concentrated on sound track recording, and became Hollywood’s most sought after percussionist, playing for some of his childhood heroes; Bernard Herman, Dave Rakson, Alex North, Max Steiner, Lionel Newman, Hugo Friedhoffer, Walter Scharf, and Ernest Gold.
As a result Emil released an Afro Cuban Jazz album called Luntana released by Interworld Music.This same year he was appointed as head of the percussion Department at L A M A, The Los Angeles Music Academy in Pasadena California.
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 Alfred Nobel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Had it not been for Nobel’s youngest assistant and testament executor Ragnar Sohlman, it is unlikely that the intentions of the testament would have been carried out, as Alfred Nobel’s estate was spread out in eight European countries.
Alfred Nobel was accused of being the “salesman of death”, even though 90 percent of dynamite use was for non-violent purposes.
She and Nobel remained friends for the rest of his life and Baroness Bertha von Sutt-ner, who was a pioneer in the peace movement and author of Down with Weapons was later (in 1905) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for which she probably was the original source of inspiration.
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Emanuil Nobel was the founder of the Nobel's dynasty.
Nobel was a constant member of the commission on the technical education.
Among the representatives of this generation it is important to mention the name of Emil Emmanuilovich Nobel who had tragically died in the laboratory of his brother in 1864.
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 CNN - The 1997 Nobel Prizes
Nobel's interest in rewarding achievements in five fields was rooted in family tradition and his own life experience.
Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833.
According to Nobel's wishes, the prizes in science and literature were to be awarded by a Swedish committee, while the peace prize was to be given out by a Norwegian panel.
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 nobel - Spock Search
Robert Nobel (1829-1896) was the oldest of the Nobel brothers.
Ludvig Nobel (1831-1888) was Alfred Nobel's second oldest brother.
Emil Nobel (1843-1864) was the youngest son of Immanuel Nobel and the youngest brother of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel and Alfred Nobel.
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 BBC - History - Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)
Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Nobel's brother Emil had been killed in a nitro-glycerine explosion in 1864.
Dynamite established Nobel's fame and was soon used in blasting tunnels, cutting canals and building railways and roads all over the world.
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 Emil von Behring - Biography
Emil Adolf Behring was born on March 15, 1854 at Hansdorf, Deutsch-Eylau as the eldest son of the second marriage of a schoolmaster with a total of 13 children.
In the ensuing years followed honorary membership of Societies in Italy, Turkey and France; in 1901, the year of his Nobel Prize, he was raised to the nobility, and in 1903 he was elected to the Privy Council with the title of Excellency.
It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures.
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 Alfred Nobel
Nobel's father, Immanuel, was a Swedish inventor-entrepreneur in St. Petersburg, who supplied the Russian military with war matériel, including early underwater mines.
Nobel, the man who had tried to make handling explosives safe for workmen, was deeply troubled by the destructiveness of his inventions and became concerned with establishing worldwide peace.
Nobel died in 1896, leaving his considerable estate as an endowment for annual awards in chemistry, physics, medicine or physiology, literature, and peace—all of which represented his lifelong interests.
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 Immanuel Nobel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing.
He was the father of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel and Alfred Nobel.
Another son, Emil Oskar Nobel died at an explosion in the father's factory in Stockholm in 1864.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Nobel   (102 words)

  
 Dr. Riethmüller M/R/S - Medical Research Services
In 1901, Emil von Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths".
In Berlin, Emil Adolf Behring spent several years as assistant of Robert Koch at the Institute of Hygiene and at the Institute of Infectious Diseases where he also met Paul Ehrlich.
In 1894, Emil von Behring became Professor of Hygiene at Halle, and in 1894 he moved to the corresponding chair at Marburg.
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 Alfred Noble
Emil, Alfred Nobel's brother, is killed during the preparation of nitroglycerine at Heleneborg, Stockholm.
At the age of 40 Alfred Nobel is a wealthy man. He moves to Paris and settles at Avenue Malakoff.
Alfred Nobel advertises for a housekeeper/personal secretary, meets with Bertha Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau (later von Suttner) and hires her.
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 Physics 2204
Nobel’s father, Immanuel Nobel, worked as an inventor and engineer constructing buildings and bridges in Stockholm until he was forced into bankruptcy the same year Alfred was born.
Nobel was forced to move his lab onto a barge on nearby Lake Mälaren.
By the time Nobel was 43 years old, he said he felt like an old man. He had advertised in a newspaper, "Wealthy, highly-educated elderly gentleman seeks lady of mature are, versed in languages, as secretary and supervisor of household." (www.nobel.se).
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Emil
The German chemist Emil Fischer did much of the basic work on purines and introduced the term into the chemical literature in the early 20th cent.
The term manic-depression was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896.
Victor Herbert was the chief conductor from 1898 to 1904; he was succeeded by Emil Paur (1904-10).
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 The Nobel Prize - A guide to the Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize (pronounced no-BELL) is awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
The first ceremony to award the Nobel Prizes in literature, physics, chemistry, and medicine was held at the Old Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm in 1901; since 1902, the prizes have been formally awarded by the King of Sweden.
King Oscar II did not initially approve of awarding grand national prizes to foreigners, but is said to have changed his mind after realizing the publicity value of the prizes for the country.
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 Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel (born in 1833 and passed away in 1896) was a scientist, author and pacifist, but above all these things he was who created the dynamite and owner of other 355 patents.
Alfred Nobel was a truly remarkable man. He was born in Stockholm in 1833.
When Alfred Nobel started to work with nitroglycerine during the 1850’s it was considered to be too dangerous to be of any practical use.
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 Famous Scientists and Mathematicians
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"
Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons"
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932 "for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry.
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 Hermann Emil Fischer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hermann Emil Fischer was born on October 9, 1852, at Euskirchen, in the Cologne district.
In 1872, Emil, was persuaded by his cousin Otto Fischer, to go with him to the newly established University of Strasbourg, where Professor Rose was working on the Bunsen method of analysis.
Emil Fischer Memorial Medal was instituted by the German Chemical
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 10 Dec History: This Date   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, 62, “in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualitites of both heart and intellect.”
Searching for a safer explosive, Nobel discovered in 1867 that the combination of nitroglycerin and a porous substance called kieselguhr produced a highly explosive mixture that was much safer to handle and use.
Nobel christened his invention "dynamite," for the Greek word dynamis, meaning "power." Securing patents on dynamite, Nobel acquired a fortune as humanity put his invention to use in construction and warfare.
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 Inventor Alfred Nobel Biography
In 1866, Alfred Nobel discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a paste which could be shaped into rods of a size and form suitable for insertion into drilling holes.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, born in Stockholm.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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 10 Dec History: This Date
The Nobel Prizes are awarded every year on 10 December, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901 is awarded to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, 49, "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1901 is awarded to Jean Henri Dunant, 73, and Frédéric Passy, 79, respectively Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Founder and President of the first French peace society.
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 National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum - Leadville, Colorado, minerals, gems, history
Today, Alfred Nobel is known throughout the world as the founder and benefactor of the Nobel Prizes.
At the age of 17, Alfred was sent to Paris for further education and became acquainted with the discovery of nitroglycerine by his fellow student, Ascanio Sobrero.
Returning to Russia, Alfred Nobel further developed nitroglycerine and invented the blasting cap as a safe means of initiating this powerful explosive.
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 Palade George Emil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Palade, George Emil, born in 1912, Romanian-born American cell biologist and winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his...
In 1974, he shared with two colleagues the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries...
George Emil Palade” research and formative Platform was founded in 2006 within “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and includes eight interdisciplinary departments.
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