Salvador Luria was an Italian American microbiologist who shared his lab with Dulbecco in Bloomington after fleeing World War ...

But life wasn't always so illustrious for Alfred Nobel. According to Ingrid Carlberg's biography of Nobel, he had a tough childhood in Stockholm. Not only was he poor, but the boy who would become ...

On the tenth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen of Norway and the four other members of the Nobel committee gathered in Oslo to announce the recipient of the 1906 ...

The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their ...

Have you ever wondered how you can change the world? Students in the Partners in Peace class sought to answer that question ...

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.

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 ...

Romer received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” He shared the prize with ...

Here are some things to know about the Nobel Prizes: The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century businessman and chemist from Sweden. He held more than 300 patents but his claim ...

Nobel prizes for applied research provide recognition for innovations with profound impact, fully in tune with the intentions of Alfred Nobel. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honours discoveries ...

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...