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 ...

This year's Nobel Prizes have awarded discoveries and achievements that have benefitted humankind in a myriad of ways. Who ...

Twelve days ago, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado. Machado is a prominent leader of the Venezuelan opposition against the dictatorship of Nicolás ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...