Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801–1872), an inventor and engineer, and Karolina Andriette (Ahlsell) Nobel (1805–1889). The couple married in 1827 and had eight children. The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood. Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age. Alfred Nobel's interest in technology was inherited from his father, an alumnus of Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Alfred Nobel | Life and career
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name the fields in which nobel prize is given
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Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.
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To those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind
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The Nobel Foundation.
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29 June 1900.
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No.
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Nomination forms are sent by the Nobel Committee.
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Alfred Nobel.
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He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
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Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801–1872), an inventor and engineer, and Karolina Andriette (Ahlsell) Nobel (1805–1889). The couple married in 1827 and had eight children. The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood. Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age. Alfred Nobel's interest in technology was inherited from his father, an alumnus of Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Alfred Nobel | Life and career
Bryn was born in Trondheim as the son of Thomas Bryn and Kristine Emilie Karoline Richter. He was a grandson of Constitutional Father Thomas Bryn, a brother of Knud Bryn and Halfdan Bryn, and the father of Alf Bonnevie Bryn.
Alfred Jørgen Bryn | Personal life
He was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Alfred Herman | Background
Knudson was born in Los Angeles, California in 1922. He received his B.S. from California Institute of Technology in 1944, his M.D. from Columbia University in 1947 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1956. He held a Guggenheim fellowship from 1953 to 1954.
Alfred G. Knudson | Early life and education
He was born in Blyth, Northumberland, son of Norwegian parents.
Albert Juliussen | Early life
He was born in Markaryd, Småland, Sweden.
Nattramn | Introduction
Alfred Nobel () was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers. He was a chemist, engineer, and inventor. In 1894, Nobel purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he made into a major armaments manufacturer. Nobel also invented ballistite. This invention was a precursor to many smokeless military explosives, especially the British smokeless powder cordite. As a consequence of his patent claims, Nobel was eventually involved in a patent infringement lawsuit over cordite. Nobel amassed a fortune during his lifetime, with most of his wealth coming from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous.
Nobel Prize | History
Bjornstad was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He attended Luther College in 1891 and 1892, then attended the University of Minnesota.
Alfred William Bjornstad | Early life
Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers. He was a chemist, engineer and inventor who amassed a fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous. He was interested in experimental physiology and set up his own labs in France and Italy to conduct experiments in blood transfusions. Keeping abreast of scientific findings, he was generous in his donations to Ivan Pavlov's laboratory in Russia and was optimistic about the progress resulting from scientific discoveries made in laboratories. In 1888, Nobel was surprised to read his own obituary, titled "The merchant of death is dead", in a French newspaper.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Background
Ndengane was born in Cape Town.
Alfred Ndengane | Early and personal life
Nobel was born in Pennsylvania, one of three children born to Philadelphia doctors Dr. Golda R. Nobel and Dr. Bernard D. Judovich. His mother was a psychiatrist who lived to age 107, while his father was a general practitioner. Nobel graduated from Friends Select School in 1952. He earned an undergraduate degree in English from Haverford College in 1956, followed by a master's in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958 and a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1963. His residency was interrupted by the Vietnam War, when he served in the Navy.
Joel J. Nobel | Early life and education
Nobel filed his first patent, an English patent for a gas meter, in 1857, while his first Swedish patent, which he received in 1863, was on "ways to prepare gunpowder".
Alfred Nobel | Life and career
Johnson was born in Philadelphia on November 18, 1876, son of Philip Carrigan Johnson Jr and his wife Elvira Lindsay. His father was a career US Naval officer, who reached the rank of Commodore, or Rear Admiral. Alfred was a nephew of American painter Eastman Johnson, who was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Alfred grew up with his family on his father's assignments in California, Maine, and in the District of Columbia, where he attended public schools.
Alfred Wilkinson Johnson | Early life and education
Mann was born and raised to a Jewish family in Portland, Oregon. His father was a grocer who emigrated from England; his mother a pianist and singer who immigrated from Poland.
Alfred E. Mann | Early life and education
He grew up in White Plains, New York, while his father worked at Columbia University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Alfred G. Gilman | Early life
Næss was born in Vardø as the son of physician Aage Næss and Elna Elisabeth Eide. He was married to Anne Marie Dahl from 1953 to 1955, and to Marie Elisabeth Grønn-Nielsen from 1960 until her death in 1978. He was married to Eivor Hilde Midthus from 1995. He died in Oslo in 1997, on his 70th birthday.
Alfred Næss (playwright) | Personal life
Nisonoff's parents immigrated from Hungary and Russia to New York City as teenagers. He was born in Corona, Queens on January 26, 1923. His parents moved the family to South River, New Jersey, where they operated a butcher shop and a grocery store throughout Alfred's childhood.
Alfred Nisonoff | Biography
Edmonds was born in 1821 at Bishopstone, Berkshire, England.
Alfred Edmonds | Birth
He was born on 1 September 1859 in London, England, the son of Heinrich Pribram and Sophie Pribram. He died on 7 May 1942 in London.
Alfred Francis Pribram | Life
Neilands was born on September 11, 1921 in Glen Valley, British Columbia, to Thomas Abraham Neilands and Mary Rebecca Neilands (née Harpur), both of whom immigrated from Northern Ireland. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Guelph in 1944, his master's degree from Dalhousie University in 1946, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in biochemistry in 1949. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institutet's Medical Nobel Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Joe Neilands | Early life and education
Emil Nobel was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the youngest son of Immanuel Nobel (1801–1872) and Karolina Andrietta Ahlsell (1803–1889). He was the brother of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel and Alfred Nobel. In 1842, Immanuel Nobel opened a workshop with foundry in St. Petersburg returning to Sweden in 1859 with his youngest sons Emil and Alfred. Emil was the only one of the Nobel family to go to college, attending University of Uppsala. Emil died together with several other factory worker, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with nitroglycerine at Nobels sprängolja, his father's factory at Heleneborg in Stockholm.
Emil Oskar Nobel | Biography
Post was born in New York City on January 13, 1806. He graduated from Columbia College in 1822 and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827, studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London (1827–29).
Alfred Charles Post | Early life
He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 28, 1911. Nier showed an early ability in mathematics and science, coupled with an aptitude for craft and mechanical work. Nier's German immigrant parents had little education or financial resources but their determination for his development meant that he was able to attend the nearby University of Minnesota. Though he graduated in electrical engineering in 1931, the lack of engineering jobs during the Great Depression encouraged him to take up graduate study in physics.
Alfred O. C. Nier | Early career
Hanscom was born in 1819 in Rochester, New York to parents Sarah and George George Hansom.
Alfred H. Hanscom | Early life
Claes Nobel ( , ; born 1930), a native of Sweden, is grandson of Ludvig Nobel and grand nephew to Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prizes.
Claes Nobel | Introduction
Edwin Ruud was born in the parish of Askim in Østfold, Norway. He was educated in engineering at the Horten Technical School ("Horten tekniske skole") in Vestfold, Norway.
Edwin Ruud | Early life
Following various business failures, Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented the veneer lathe (which allowed the production of modern plywood) and started work on the torpedo. In 1842, the family joined him in the city. Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German and Russian. For 18 months, from 1841 to 1842, Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, in Stockholm.
Alfred Nobel | Life and career
Dent was born in London, the son of Thomas Dent. He was educated at Eton College which he attended from 1858 to 1862, subsequently becoming a partner in the family business of Dent & Co..
Alfred Dent | Life
Born was born in Berlin. He trained and educated as a radiochemist under Otto Hahn at the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie". Upon receipt of his doctorate, he was then an "Assistent" (Assistant) to Hahn, in the 1930s.
Hans-Joachim Born | Education
He was born on July 4, 1904, at Quitula Aldona, India. He studied in Bombay. He earned a B.Sc. (Mathematics) and Bachelor of Civil Engineering.
Albert Vivian D'Costa | Early life
Alfred Davenport was born on 5 May 1849 in Oxford. He attended Rugby School and went up to the University of Oxford.
Alfred Davenport | Early life
He was born on July 21, 1922, in Winooski, Vermont.
Alfred Croisetière | Background
Johannes Nobel was born June 25, 1887 in Forst (Lausitz). He studied Indo-European languages, Arabic, Turkish and Sanskrit at the University of Greifswald from 1907, then from 1908 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University Berlin. In 1911 he completed his PhD thesis on the history of the Alamkãraśāstra, and decided to work as a librarian. In 1915 he passed the library examinations and found employment at the Old Royal Library in Berlin. In the First World War, Nobel joined the Landsturm and was temporarily employed by the Supreme Army Command as chief interpreter for Turkish.
Johannes Nobel | Early life and education
Nobel was born in the village of Kristianopel at Karlskrona in Blekinge where his father was a merchant. He was the son of Hans Mortensen Nobel (dead 1698) and Sophie Casparsdatter Eggers (dead 1693). He was an uncle of jurist and military officer Peter Schnitler (1690–1751). The year after he was born, southern Sweden including Blekinge became Swedish territory under the terms of the at the Treaty of Roskilde (1658). Nobel attended school in Kristianstad and was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1677. For a period he was a customs contractor of North Jutland. Nobel served as mining counselor at Nordafjelsk bergamt in Northern Norway from 1702.
Hans Nobel | Biography
Oppenheimer was born on April 23, 1930 in New York City the son of Irene (née Rothschild; 1904-1991) and Louis E. Oppenheimer (1901-1984), who was a stockbroker. He is of Jewish background.
Alan Oppenheimer | Early life
Knopf was born December 2, 1882, in San Francisco, California, to German American immigrants. His father was a building contractor. He grew up with his family on a ranch near Woodside, California.
Adolph Knopf | Early life
Dellentash was born in New Rochelle, New York. His father was a high-rise building contractor who worked on the construction of the World Trade Center. His mother was a pianist and was the head of the local Republican Party. Dellentash obtained his pilot’s license aged 16.
Alfred Dellentash | Early life
He was born in a little town in the north of Sweden in the year 1885, one of a family of five children whose parents were simple people of modest circumstances. We know very little about his childhood days in Sweden except that they left him with a lifelong interest in the country and everything Swedish. When Solbert was eight years old his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Worcester, Massachusetts. Here, he supplemented the family income by the traditional method of peddling newspapers as well as teaching school at night and working in summer resorts during vacations to help pay for his own schooling.
Oscar Solbert | Early life
Alfred Schreyer was born on 8 May 1922 in Drohobych in east Galicia, then part of Poland, to a Jewish family. His father, Benno, was a chemist at the Austrian company Gartenberg & Schreyer, and his mother, Leontina, was a pharmacist. His cousin Józef Schreier was a mathematician.
Alfred Schreyer | Early life
Theodore C. Link was born on March 17, 1850 near Heidelberg, Germany. He was trained in engineering at the University of Heidelberg and the École Centrale Paris.
Theodore Link | Early life
Sverdrup was born in Stockholm; he was the son of the bishop and politician Jakob Sverdrup and the brother of the Germanic philology professor Jakob Sverdrup and the zoologist Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme. He was the father of the historian Jakob Sverdrup, who directed the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the mathematician Erling Sverdrup. He was the nephew of the theologian Georg Sverdrup. After graduation, he worked as an instructor and school principal in Molde and at the Tanks Upper Secondary School in Bergen. After the Second World War, he received a professorship in religious studies at the University of Oslo as the successor to Wilhelm Schencke.
Georg Johan Sverdrup | Life and family
Alfred Bester was born in Manhattan, New York City, on December 18, 1913. His father, James J. Bester, owned a shoe store and was a first-generation American whose parents were both Austrian Jews. Alfred's mother, Belle (née Silverman), was born in Russia and spoke Yiddish as her first language before coming to America as a youth. Alfred was James and Belle's second and final child, and only son. (Their first child, Rita, was born in 1908.) Though his mother was born Jewish, she became a Christian Scientist, and Alfred himself was not raised within any religious traditions; he wrote that "his home life was completely liberal and iconoclastic." Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Philomathean Society.
Alfred Bester | Life and career
Avildsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Ivy ("née" Guilbert) and Clarence John Avildsen. He was educated at the Hotchkiss School and at New York University. He was of Danish heritage.
John G. Avildsen | Early life
Ned Duane Heindel was born on September 4, l937 in Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania to Mr. and Mrs. Penrose H. Heindel. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from Lebanon Valley College (1959), and a Master's degree (1961) and Ph.D. (1963) from the University of Delaware, where he worked with William A. Mosher. He did postdoctoral work at Princeton University in 1964 with Edward C. Taylor.
Ned D. Heindel | Early life
Oscar Rudolph Knutson was born in Superior, Wisconsin. He was the son of Bottolf Knutson (1865-1940) and Rachel (Satren) Knutson (1864-1929), both of whom were immigrants from Norway. The son of immigrant parents, he did not learn to speak English until he entered school. He graduated from Warren, Minnesota High School in 1920 and attended St. Olaf College and the Northwestern School of Agriculture (now University of Minnesota Crookston), graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1927.
Oscar Knutson | Early life and education
He was born in London, the son of William Poland, and educated at Highgate, London, Paris and Frankfurt.
Alfred Poland | Early life
Tor Hagfors was born in Oslo in 1930. He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) and received his doctorate degree in 1959 from the University of Oslo.
Tor Hagfors | Early life
Laun was born on February 14, 1905, in New Holstein, Wisconsin. He attended Oberlin College before graduating cum laude from Harvard University.
Alfred A. Laun Jr. | Biography
Stein was born and died in New York City. He was the son of a Jewish couple, Beatrice Cecilla (Borg), a children's rights activist, and Fred Michael Stein, a banker. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University and Columbia University. He was a subsequently a researcher under Max Bergmann at Rockefeller University, where much of his most important work was done. Stein won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.
William Howard Stein | Life and career
Arthur S. Obermayer was born in Philadelphia. His "four grandparents were all German." His family came from Creglingen. Obermayer graduated from Swarthmore College. He received a PhD in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Arthur S. Obermayer | Early life
Alfred Doll-Steinberg was born in Vienna, the son of Marcus Doll-Steinberg, who worked for the government there until the Austrian Nazis sacked all Jews from government jobs, and they moved to Nottingham, England. He received a scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took a double First in mathematics and chemistry.
Alfred Doll-Steinberg | Early life
Gustave Naudin was born in Corberon, France on 29 May 1890.
Gustave Naudin | Early life
Øidne was born in 1918 in Konsmo. He took the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1950, with the paper "Audnedalen"—a work on his native valley.
Gabriel Øidne | Early life and education
Alfred Harskovitz was born in a Jewish family in Hungary in 1904. He immigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago.
Alfred S. Hart | Early life
He also developed sufficient literary skill to write poetry in English. His "Nemesis" is a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci. It was printed while he was dying, but the entire stock was destroyed immediately after his death except for three copies, being regarded as scandalous and blasphemous. It was published in Sweden in 2003 and has been translated into Slovenian and French.
Alfred Nobel | Personal life
Elsen was born in 1927 in New York City. He earned a BA, MA and PhD from Columbia University.
Albert Elsen | Early life
Hassler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the United States. He grew up in New York and was educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He studied night classes in journalism at Columbia University.
Alfred Hassler | Early life and education
Niemann was born in Goslar, then in the Kingdom of Hanover, the son of a school principal. In 1849 he began an apprenticeship at the town hall pharmacy in Göttingen, where from 1852 he was a Ph.D. student at the George August University.
Albert Niemann (chemist) | Life
Alfred David Bernstein was born on April 9, 1911, in New York City. He obtained two degrees from Columbia University, including a degree from Columbia University Law School.
Alfred Bernstein | Background
Brophy was born in Champaign, Illinois. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree. He earned a J.D. from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he held a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship.
Alfred Brophy | Early life
, born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm Sweden, was a chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its original business as an iron and steel mill. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. Nobel amassed a sizeable personal fortune during his lifetime, thanks mostly to this invention. In 1896 Nobel died of a stroke in his villa in San Remo, Italy where he had lived out the last years of his life. Nobel's will expressed a request, to the surprise of many, that his money be used for prizes in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine and literature.
Nobel Foundation | History
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He graduated from Princeton (A. B., 1892; Ph.D., 1896).
Max Farrand | Early life
Westermark was born on 30 August 1891 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Professor, M.D. Frans Westermark and his wife Maggie Cnattingius. He was the brother of radiologist Nils Westermark.
Herbert Westermark | Early life
Alfred Griot was born in 1877 in Paterson, New Jersey. His father worked as a barber in the United States, returning with the family to France in 1884. Having learned English as a child, Rosmer remained fluent in the language for the rest of his life.
Alfred Rosmer | Early life
Alfred Jørgen Bryn (29 May 1862 – 3 August 1937) was a Norwegian patent engineer.
Alfred Jørgen Bryn | Introduction
He was born on 26 May 1887 at Pathein in the Irrawaddy delta, son of U Poe Hla and Daw Nyunt.
Ba U | Born
Alfred Adson was born at Terril, Iowa. His parents Anna B. Adson (1869–1955) and Martin Adson (1864–1955) were both Norwegian immigrant. Adson attained his BSc in 1912 at the University of Nebraska, his M.D. in 1914 from the University of Pennsylvania and MA in 1918 from the University of Nebraska. As a fellow in surgery, he entered the Mayo Clinic in July 1914 where he was invited to develop a section of neurological surgery. He became a substantive member of staff on January 1, 1917.
Alfred Washington Adson | Early life and education
Gustafson was born in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1928. His grandparents were Swedish immigrants and his father, Herbert C. Gustafson was an artilleryman in France during World War I. Both parents were offspring of Swedish immigrants. In the early part of his life he lost the tip of his right index finger in a farming accident. Later on his flying career was almost ended because the Air Force considered it a "missing digit" but later changed its classification to a "terminal digit."
Gerald Gustafson | Early life
Lambourne was born to William and Martha Wernham in Chieveley, Berkshire, England on the River Lambourn. The family emigrated to the United States when Alfred was a child. They first settled in St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Utah Territory.
Alfred Lambourne | Early life
Alfred Stedman Hartwell was born June 11, 1836, in Natick, Massachusetts. His father was Stedman Hartwell and mother was Rebecca Dana Perry (1805–1872). He graduated from Harvard University in 1858 where he was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Alfred S. Hartwell | Life
In 1933, Neu was born in Carroll, Iowa.
Arthur Neu | Early life
Alfred Barton Brady was born on 1 February 1856 in Manchester, England. He was educated in private schools.
Alfred Barton Brady | Early life
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. He owned Bofors, which he redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Having read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prize. His name also survives in companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies that Nobel established.
Alfred Nobel | Introduction
Edward Arthur Hegvold was born in Rockhampton on 2 October 1909, the son of Norwegian immigrants Ingebrigt (Albert) Hegvold and Annie (née Larsen).
Edward Arthur Hegvold | Early life
Alfred Joseph Naquet (6 October 183410 November 1916), was a French chemist and politician.
Alfred Joseph Naquet | Introduction
Norman was born in Exeter, England in 1831. His father was a landowner, surgeon and Deputy-Lieutenant of Somerset. He studied the molluscs and plants of Somerset at young age. He studied at Winchester College from 1844 to 1848. He then studied at Christ Church, Oxford and completed his B.A. in 1852. He received his M.A. from the University of Oxford in 1859.
Alfred Merle Norman | Early life
Hagen was born in 1884 in Richland County, North Dakota.
Oscar W. Hagen | Biography
Karle was born in New York City, on June 18, 1918, the son of Sadie Helen (Kun) and Louis Karfunkle. He was born into a Jewish family with a strong interest in the arts. He had played piano as a youth and had participated in a number of competitions, but he was far more interested in science. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, and would later join Arthur Kornberg (awarded the Nobel in Medicine in 1959) and Paul Berg (a winner in Chemistry in 1980), as graduates of the school to win Nobel Prizes. As a youth, Karle enjoyed handball, ice skating, touch football and swimming in the nearby Atlantic Ocean.
Jerome Karle | Early life and education
Adolf Born (12 June 1930 – 22 May 2016) was a Czech painter, illustrator, filmmaker and caricaturist, "known for his murkily-tinted pictures of bizarre fauna, and Victorian gentlemen in top hats and top coats". In recognition of his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator, Born was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008. His various international rewards and honors also include the Grand Prix at the International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal and the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
Adolf Born | Introduction
He was born in 1884 in Affaltrach, now called Obersulm, Württemberg, Germany.
August Thalheimer | Early life
He was born on 26 April 1877 to Anne Jette Jensen (1847–?) of Kragerø or Skåtøy; and Kristian Andersen Næss (1848–?) of Grue, Norway. He was baptized as "Karl Alfred Ingvald Næss" on 27 May 1877 in the Garnison Menighet, in Oslo, Norway, but he always used the name "Alfred Næss". His father, Christian, was an army sergeant. Alfred had two siblings: Carl Albert Næss (1874–?); and Alvilde Marie Magdalene Næss (1875–1933) who married Thorvald Martin Tandberg (1874–1970). Næss grew up in Vika. On 6 February 1897 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he competed against Canadian Jack McCulloch in the 1,500-meter race, McCulloch and Næss tied, invoking a run-off.
Alfred Næss | Biography
Alfred was born on 17 June 1920 at Pampanso; a village in the Eastern Region to Hansen Dowuona-Hammond and Madam Beatrice Nettey. He had his early education at Sempe Government Junior Boys' School and Rowe Road Government Senior Boys' School (Kinbu Secondary Technical School), Accra. He had his secondary education at Mfantsipim School, the Accra Academy and O 'Reilly Educational Institute where he obtained his Cambridge School Certificate with exemption from the London Matriculation Examination in 1940.
Alfred Jonas Dowuona-Hammond | Early life and education
Harding was born on August 15, 1852, in Ireland, the son of Richard Harding. He emigrated in 1867 to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He became a naturalized citizen in 1870 and spent several years a businessman.
Alfred Harding (bishop) | Biography
Sayre was born in New York City. He completed his bachelor's degree in physics at Yale University at the age of 19. After working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, he earned his MS degree at Auburn University in 1948. In 1949, he moved to Oxford with his wife Anne Colquhoun, whom he had married in 1947. Sayre completed his doctoral studies in Dorothy Hodgkin's group in 1951. It is at this time that Sayre discovered the equation now named after him, based on the concept of atomicity. Although the key to most direct methods still in use today, Sayre did not share the 1985 chemistry Nobel prize awarded for their discovery.
David Sayre | Life and career
Hergesheimer was born on February 15, 1880 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated in a Quaker school, and he graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Joseph Hergesheimer | Early life
The majority of these literature citations have been garnered by searching on variations of the author's name on Google, Google Scholar, and the Energy Citations Database.
Hans-Joachim Born | Selected publications
Olav Njølstad (born 1 March 1957) is a Norwegian historian, biographer and novelist. He is director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
Olav Njølstad | Introduction
Born in Barcelona on October 17, 1917, in the Round of San Pau 51, son of Arturo Benlloch Ibañez and Elvira Llorach Papasseit, dying her mother's October 28, 1918, due to the so-called Spanish flu along with a sister non nata. His father was a major furniture manufacturer, who had lived a long time in France, and had advanced liberal and social ideas at the time, favoring early on the interest shown by the young Alfred science. Among other things allows you to install a chemical laboratory at home where it experiments in different fields. At age eleven he was a big fan of watching preparations under the microscope and shows passion for physics, chemistry, mineralogy and mechanics.
Alfred Benlloch Llorach | Biography
Nobel was accused of high treason against France for selling Ballistite to Italy, so he moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy in 1891. On 10 December 1896, he suffered a stroke and died. He had left most of his wealth in trust, unbeknown to his family, in order to fund the Nobel Prize awards. He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
Alfred Nobel | Death
Nuechterlein was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on June 20, 1925, the son of Edwin William and Laura Anna Nuechterlein. He earned bachelor's master's and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan.
Donald Nuechterlein | Early life
Emil Oskar Nobel ( , ; also Oscar; 29 October 1843 – 3 September 1864) was a member of the Nobel family.
Emil Oskar Nobel | Introduction
Rebstein was born on May 4, 1840 in Töss, Switzerland, to his father, a baker and his mother, a doctor.
Johann Jakob Rebstein | Early life
Wicksell was born in Stockholm on December 20, 1851. His father was a relatively successful businessman and real estate broker. He lost both his parents at a relatively early age. His mother died when he was only six, and his father died when he was fifteen. His father's considerable estate allowed him to enroll at the University of Uppsala in 1869 to study mathematics and physics.
Knut Wicksell | Early life
Eugène Halphen was born on 5 July 1820 in Paris, France.
Eugène Halphen | Early life
Born in Germany he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Yale University where he worked in the group of John Fenn, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Matthias Mann | Early life and education
Hedqvist was born on 13 May 1894 in Piteå landsförsamling, Norrbotten County, Sweden the son of av Emil Hedqvist and his wife Elin Åström. Hedqvist passed "studentexamen" at Umeå högre allmänna läroverk in 1911.
Birger Hedqvist | Early life
Harold Smith was born in Germany to an Austrian mother and American father who was stationed in Austria with the military at the end of World War II. In 6th grade, Smith and his family moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Massachusetts where he completed his high school education.
Harold Smith (scientist) | Early life
He was born in Rome of Dutch-Burgundian parents. He began his law studies at Strassburg (1834), but made his home in Paris.
Alfred Michiels | Biography
He was born as Alfred Eriksen in Christiania as the son of the watchmaker Henrik Erichsen (1825–1870) and Emilie Kathrine Christoffersen (1825–1902). He married the vicar's daughter Sigrid Marie Wexelsen (1866–1960) in August 1890. He was the father of the journalist and author Solvejg Eriksen.
Alfred Eriksen | Personal life
At the time, Nobel was a student in Uppsala, but also helped in the factory. After the explosion, production of nitroglycerin was banned in the factory, but continued next to Heleneborg on an anchored barge in a bay of Lake Mälaren. His brother Alfred was not in the factory at the time of Emil’s death but later managed to stabilize dynamite with a diatomaceous earth called kieselguhr.
Emil Oskar Nobel | Biography