The latest news and top stories on Alfred Nobel. A Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and industrialist, he is widely recognised for inventing dynamite in 1867, a safer explosive that revolutionised ...

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) was the creator of the monetary award, who was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and ...

The Oslo-based Nobel Peace Prize committee may have turned down President Trump’s latest bid for glory. Yet by honoring ...

In 2007, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade against climate change and then parlayed that into a $300 million ...

Joel Mokyr, born in Leiden in 1946, is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University and ...

This year’s economics Nobel focuses on the role of innovation and creative destruction, while last year’s highlighted the ...

Professor Philippe Aghion, former Professor of Economics at UCL, has been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic ...

Closer to home, in the 1970s Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams were co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize as leading ...

There won't be a Nobel Prize winner from Mexico this year, but there have been several historically who have earned the ...

Discover the rich history and legacy of the Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo's Nobel Peace Center, a shrine to peace and global harmony.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-US President Donald Trump hungering for the Nobel Peace Prize, has said that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, this year’s winner, accepted the award “in his honor,” ...