The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...

But life wasn't always so illustrious for Alfred Nobel. According to Ingrid Carlberg's biography of Nobel, he had a tough childhood in Stockholm. Not only was he poor, but the boy who would become ...

The coveted Nobel Prizes are announced annually, and the most recent installment is here. This year's U.S. winners include Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, two University of Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

the Middle East or just generally in undoing the 80-year-old international order that America built after two world wars — in keeping with the ideals of prize creator Alfred Nobel, a 19th ...

John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony. Alicia Nash. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial giant and inventor, did not include economics when he put together his 1894 will and created prizes in physics ...

Seated: Jerome Karle (1985) and Roald Hoffman (1981). Alfred Nobel, the reclusive inventor of dynamite, probably had little idea of the explosive impact his posthumous wishes would have on society.

In 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace – the Nobel ...