Nobel
Al·fred Bern·hard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd], /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/, 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist: founding benefactor of the Nobel Prizes.
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“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking | M.L. Nestel | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThis week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.
Promoting Girls’ Education Isn’t Enough: Malala Can Do More | Paula Kweskin | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe may have been telling the truth when, on hearing that Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he remarked, “Never heard of him.”
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else | Allen Barra | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSecond, the Nobel Prize for economics went to Jean Tirole, who studies how to regulate politically powerful companies.
The Supreme Court Is Weighing Corporate Power Yet Again | Zephyr Teachout | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn December 10, 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he knew the world was watching.
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Speech Is an Often Ignored Masterpiece | Malcolm Jones | October 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Finsen was given the Nobel prize partly for re-discovery of this.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine | James J. WalshIn the same year Nobel contributed another of his notable inventions, and called it dynamite.
Invention | Bradley A. FiskeNo wonder Kipling got the Nobel prize for idealistic literature.
Major Prophets of To-Day | Edwin E. SlossonSo Ostwald, having won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1909, is in a fair way to become in time eligible for the Nobel peace prize.
Major Prophets of To-Day | Edwin E. SlossonOstwald devoted the $40,000 he got from the Nobel Fund to the attempt to introduce a new language, Ido.
Major Prophets of To-Day | Edwin E. Slosson
British Dictionary definitions for Nobel
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Alfred Bernhard (ˈalfreːd ˈbæːrnhard). 1833–96, Swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite (1866) and his bequest founding the Nobel prizes
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