Over the years, several Marvel characters have been deemed worthy of lifting Thor's hammer. Worthiness has nothing to do with ...

Paul Tenngart's book explores the Nobel Prize in Literature's influence on global literary canon, highlighting biases and the ...

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Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, and his transition from arms manufacturer to founder of the Nobel Prize is intriguing. Known as the 'dynamite king,' he emerged from a family with ties ...

The six prizes, each worth 10 million Swedish kronor ($917,000), are named after Alfred ... dynamite and gelignite. The prizes are handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s 1896 death.

Evelyn Rose: So it’s titled “The first dynamite factory in America. Giant powder company, under personal license of inventor Alfred Nobel, began producing dynamite here on March, 1868. On November 26, ...

The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling dynamite and explosives in the 19th century, was not an obvious candidate to become the namesake ...

And they started because of this guy, Alfred Nobel. He was an engineer and inventor who was born in Sweden in 1833. One of his most famous inventions was dynamite. It was really useful for ...

Here is a look at how the award works: Who can win? According to the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, the prize should go to the person "who has done the most ...

(Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP) OSLO, Norway — Alfred Nobel ushered in the era of high explosives by inventing dynamite and blasting caps, but he never conceived of the destructive power that ...

Geoffrey Hinton is a walking paradox—an archetype of a certain kind of brilliant scientist.  Hinton’s renown was solidified on Tuesday when he won the Nobel Prize in physics, alongside the American ...