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  Alfred Nobel - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Nobel, a descendant of the seventeenth century scientist, Olaus Rudbeck (1630-1708), was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872).
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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 Der Nobelpreis - Alfred Nobel und die vollständige Chronik der Nobelpreisträger
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.
Immanuel Nobel engagierte namhafte Privatlehrer, die seine Söhne in Mathematik, Physik, Chemie, Literatur, Geschichte, Philosophie, Russisch, Französisch, Englisch und Deutsch unterrichteten.
Auch die Schlussformulierung Alfred Nobels, in der Alfred Nobel schreibt, dass den Nobelpreis "nur der Würdigste" erhält, "ob er nun Skandinavier ist oder nicht" missfiel dem schwedischen Königshaus.
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 Term papers on Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.(Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm.
Immanuel Nobel was also a pioneer in arms manufacture and in designing steam engines.
Nobel was very interested in social and peace-related issues and held what were considered radical views in his era.
www.ghostpapers.com /term-papers-site/free-term-papers/BIOGRAPHIES/free-term-papers-Alfred-Nobel.html   (1582 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel
Immanuel Nobel, after fleeing from Russia, had set up a laboratory to manufacture explosives on a farm in the south of Stockholm with his sons Alfred and Emil.
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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 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.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/nobel.100/overview.html   (1133 words)

  
 Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is awarded each year to an individual who has made either a great single breakthrough or has made a great number of accomplishments in their lifetime in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, medicine and peace.
He stated that his remaining estate shall be invested in safe securities, and that the interest on this estate shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who have met the written requirements.
In 1968, the Prize in Economic Sciences was established by the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) in memory of Alfred Nobel.
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 Nobel Invents Dynamite: 1866
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and a very skillful entrepreneur and business man, born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833.
Immanuel's business was to manufacture submarine mines and torpedoes that he had designed for the Russian government.
The Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on December 10 each year and the king of Sweden is the person in charge of handing over the prize to the awarded in each category.
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 Immanuel Nobel / Industrieller - Economy-point.org
His son Alfred Nobel, which continued the enterprise of the father, was the founder of the Nobelpreises.
On the escape before the creditors Nobel went 1837 as an entrepreneur over Turku, where he was active as rubber manufacturer and an architect, to sank to Petersburg.
Immanuel Nobel withdrew with its family 1859 to Sweden.
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 NOBEL PRIZE: Overview
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.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1998/nobel/overview   (992 words)

  
 English School
Immanuel Nobel was also a pioneer in arms manufacture and in designing steam engines.
Alfred Nobel became very interested in nitroglycerine and how it could be put to practical use in construction work.
Immanuel and two of his sons, Alfred and Emil, left St. Petersburg together and returned to Stockholm.
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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/Immanuel_Nobel   (102 words)

  
 Royal Mail - The 2001 Collection
Royal Mail's Nobel Prizes stamps celebrate 100 years of Nobel Prizes as well as Britain's proud record in all walks of scientific and academic life.
At the age of 46, Nobel had advertised in a newspaper for a "lady of mature age, versed in languages as secretary and supervisor of household." Countess Bertha Kinsky applied and worked for Nobel for a short time before deciding to return to Austria to marry Count Arthur von Suttner.
What makes Nobel Prizes unique is that it combines all six in one Special Stamp issue for the first time ever with some processes used for the first time on UK Stamps.
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 TGCS - Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel (13 October 1833 - 10 December 1896) was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
His father, Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor, and built bridges and buildings in Stockholm.
The interest from the liquidation of Nobel’s enterprises was to be awarded in annual prizes for the greatest services to mankind in science and literature, and for the most effective work to promote friendship between nations.
www.thealegreen.org.uk /science/sixthform/nobel.htm   (1568 words)

  
 Nobel Prizes
Alfred Nobel thought to himself one day that people should be rewarded more for what they do than they are.
Alfred Nobel left most of his of his fortune in trust, as a fund from which annual prizes would be awarded to those who each year conferred " The greatest benefit on mankind ".
  She won in 1964 Nobel laureate in chemistry for her determinations by x-ray techniques of the structure of important biochemical substances.
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 dictionary - Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872), born at Stockholm, but, at an early age he went with his family to St.
This powder was a precursor of cordite, and Nobel's claim that his patent covered the latter was the occasion of vigorously contested law-suits between him and the British Government in 1894 and 1895.
Then on November 27, 1895 at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death (to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality).
www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/Alfred_Bernhard_Nobel   (786 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel, for whom the Nobel Prizes were named, was born the son of Immanuel Nobel, an engineer and inventor, on October 13, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Nobel's scheme was put on hold when, in 1852, his family needed him to return and work in the family business of shipping military equipment for Russia's military.
War and Peace in the Thinking of Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel had a clear view of what was happening in international politics during the second half of the 19th century.
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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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 Alfred Nobel: Immanuel Nobel
In 1842 when Alfred was nine years old and Immanuel's ventures had grown successfully, he was able to bring his family to St. Petersburg.
Immanuel was an inventor and engineer who had married Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell in 1827.
Immanuel, meanwhile, had failed at various business ventures until moving in 1837 to St. Petersburg in Russia, where he prospered as a manufacturer of explosive mines and machine tools.
www.lycos.com /info/alfred-nobel--immanuel-nobel.html   (666 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel - His Life and Work
His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm.
The naval mines designed by Immanuel Nobel were simple devices consisting of submerged wooden casks filled with gunpowder.
Painting by Immanuel Nobel demonstrating his sea or naval mines to the Tsar of Russia.
www.nobelprize.org /nobel/alfred-nobel/biographical/life-work/index.html   (1433 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel - Timeline
Immanuel Nobel travels to Finland and then to St. Petersburg, Russia where he starts a mechanical workshop; his family is left in Sweden.
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.
nobelprize.org /alfred_nobel/timeline   (476 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833.
The market for dynamite and detonating caps grew very rapidly and Alfred Nobel also proved himself to be a very skilful entrepreneur and business man. By 1865 his factory in Krümmel near Hamburg, Germany, was exporting nitroglycerine explosives to other countries in, Europe America and Australia.
When he was not travelling or engaging in business activities Nobel himself worked intensively in his various laboratories, first in Stockholm and later in Hamburg (Germany), Ardeer (Scotland), Paris (France), Karlskoga (Sweden) and San Remo (Italy).
www.referat.ro /referate/Alfred_Nobel_7086.htm   (1547 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel - Tag der Erfinder - www.tag-der-erfinder.de
Nobel zeigte sich an der Erfindung sehr interessiert und richtete seit 1862 seine Bemühungen darauf, das Nitroglyzerin als Sprengstoff in die Technik einzuführen.
Bei Nobels Experimenten mit Nitroglyzerin kam es zu mehreren Explosionen; bei einer Explosion 1864, bei der sein Laboratorium in die Luft flog, kamen sein Bruder Emil und weitere Personen um.
In Frankreich wurde Nobel daraufhin in der Presse mit Spionage in Verbindung gebracht, er wurde verhaftet und seine Erlaubnis, Experimente durchzuführen, wurde ihm entzogen.
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 Biography of Alfred Nobel - Succeed through Studying Biographies
Immanuel was able to get a contract to build naval mines that the Russians used to block enemy naval ships from threatening St. Petersburg.
Immanuel and his sons rebuilt their business--this time concentrating on the oil industry--and soon became wealthy again.
Alfred Nobel died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896 at the age of 63.
www.school-for-champions.com /biographies/nobel.htm   (1445 words)

  
 BBC Mundo - Nobel, un idealista hasta el fin - 08.12.2000
Alfred Nobel, químico, inventor, filántropo, poeta y escritor frustrado.
Nobel siempre mostró un gran interés por la promoción de la paz y el entendimiento humano.
Nobel murió el 10 de diciembre de 1896 en su casa de San Remo, Italia, habiendo sentado las bases para lo que se convertiría en el premio internacional más prestigioso en pro del avance del hombre.
www.bbc.co.uk /spanish/news/news001208nobelbio.shtml   (666 words)

  
 Nobel's Explosive Peace Prize : Indybay
Nobel's PR people decided that not too much ought to be said about the family's background in Russia, nor concerning father Immanuel Nobel's making of all kinds of weapons - underwater mines and torpedoes too - for the Tzar's Russian army.
According to an AP story last year they are pushing the Nobel Foundation to posthumously strip the prize given to the lobotomy's pioneer, Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1949.* He was awarded the Nobel Prize even if already by the late 1930's doctors were reporting that many lobotomy patients were left childlike, apathetic and withdrawn.
Alfred Nobel, for the by him developed dynamite and it's use against humanity, always offered the same lame and bad excuse as the 'Manhattan Project' madmen: Robert Oppenheimer's 'Dr. Strangeloves' making the nuclear bombs 50 years later also would use: ''This weapon will be so horribly strong that it will function as a deterrent.
indybay.org /newsitems/2006/11/03/18326087.php   (2579 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nobel, a descendant of the 17th century scientist, Olaus Rudbeck (1630-1708), was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872).
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace.
The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize.
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 ROAD SCHOLARS - Features news
One such person is Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the father of the Nobel Prize, after whom one of the streets in Sofia’s Geo Milev district has been named.
Due to financial difficulties, in 1837 Immanuel Nobel left Stockholm and his family to start a new career in Finland and Russia.
Apart from his devotion to inventions, Nobel was also very interested in social and peace-related issues and held what were considered radical views in his era.
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 people
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.(Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm.
He soon found that mixing nitroglycerin 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.(Internet Site) In 1867 he patented this material under the name of dynamite.
After working for Nobel for about two months she decided to return to Austria to marry Count Arthur on Suture.
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 Alfred Nobel's Life and Work - for Gradeschoolers
On October 21, 1833 a baby boy was born to a family in Stockholm, Sweden who was to become a famous scientist, inventor, businessman and founder of the Nobel Prizes.
In 1837, Immanuel Nobel decided to try his business somewhere else and left for Finland and Russia.
In 1901, the first Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden and the Peace Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.
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 Left-Wing Kook NOBEL Invented Dynamite!
Alfred Nobel is one of the leading left-wing kooks, and so is this whole committee designed to hand out the Nobel Prizes, especially the peace prize.
Despite the title of his article, Mosenthal dealt as much with Nobel's dreams as with his inventions, stressing that Nobel was always interested in inventions that had no direct military significance, and that he took out as many as 355 patents.
Carter's Nobel Prize will be forever stained with the fact that the Nobel Committee was taking a shot at George Bush, not praising Carter for anything he'd done recently.
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