Nobel chief warns of growing threat to science and free inquiry
The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...
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Dynamite and the Ethics of its Many Uses
Does an invention help people or hurt people? Can an invention do both? Let us look at an example: the invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist. While Nobel was in ...
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Nobel Impact
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.
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The extraordinary life of Alfred Nobel
Things improved for Alfred when the Nobel family moved to Russia ... found a way to make nitroglycerin safer to use by inventing dynamite in 1867. In 1864, for example, Alfred's younger brother ...