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.
Death
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel | Death
Stroke. He suffered a stroke. He suffered a stroke He had a stroke and died.
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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why is this prize given?
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To those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind
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which organization gives away the prizes?
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The Nobel Foundation.
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when was this formed?
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29 June 1900.
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are nominations after death allowed?
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No.
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how are people nominated for this?
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Nomination forms are sent by the Nobel Committee.
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by whom was the concept of these prizes first created?
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Alfred Nobel.
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who was he?
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He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
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where was he born?
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Stockholm.
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what did he invent?
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He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous.
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what is this patented thing that you just mentioned?
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It is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers.
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how can it be stored?
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Modern packaging places dynamite into sealed plastic bags, and using wax-coated cardboard.
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what are a few rules regarding this explosive?
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Explosive manuals recommend repeated turning over of boxes of dynamite in storage as sticks of dynamite will "weep" or "sweat" nitroglycerin, which can then pool in the bottom of the box or storage area.
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did the scientist, who is credited with the invention of this thing face any criticism?
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Yes, he was condemned for profiting from the sales of arms.
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when did he die?
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10 December 1896.
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how ?
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In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The merchant of death is dead", in a French newspaper. It was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died; the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered. This inspired him to change his will. On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage. He was 63 years old. Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime. He composed the last over a year before he died, signing it at the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895.
Nobel Prize | History
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
He died February 3, 1991 at age 75, having retired from the Collège de France, but still active as the Secrétaire Perpétuel of the French Academy of Sciences.
Alfred Jost | Death
In 1888, Alfred's brother, Ludvig, died while visiting Cannes, and a French newspaper mistakenly published Alfred's obituary. It condemned him for his invention of military explosives (not, as is commonly quoted, dynamite, which was mainly used for civilian applications) and is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. The obituary stated, "" ("The merchant of death is dead") and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday." Alfred (who never had a wife or children) was disappointed with what he read and concerned with how he would be remembered.
Alfred Nobel | Nobel Prizes
After Alfred Nobel's death on December 10, 1896, Sohlman was occupied for several years with the task of realizing Nobel's intentions of establishing the Nobel Prize. Since the will did not contain detailed regulations regarding selection of laureates and was contested by Nobel's relatives, the task kept Sohlman and his advisors occupied for several years. Sohlman was a member of the interim board of the Nobel Foundation.
Ragnar Sohlman | Biography
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
He died in Alfred in 1908.
Alfred Évanturel | Introduction
He died in Paris in 1874.
Alfred Darjou | Introduction
He died aged 90 on 26 April 1911, at his mansion house Hanworth Park having been ill for about four months.
Alfred Lafone | Death
Alfred Nobel stipulated in his last will and testament that his money be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature. Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish "kronor" (US$198 million, €176 million in 2016), to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes. Due to the level of scepticism surrounding the will, it was not until 26 April 1897 that the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) approved it.
Nobel Prize in Literature | Background
Active to the end of his life, he died on May 16, 1994, two weeks after being paralysed in a motor accident.
Alfred O. C. Nier | Death
He died in New Haven, on April 28, 1880, in his 73rd year, after a long illness.
Alfred Blackman | Introduction
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
Cooper died in Menton, France, in 1908.
Alfred Cooper | Death
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
Alfred Nobel stipulated in his last will and testament that his money be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature. Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish "kronor" (US$198 million, €176 million in 2016), to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes. Due to the level of skepticism surrounding the will, it was not until 26 April 1897 that it was approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament).
Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Background
Emil Oskar Nobel ( , ; also Oscar; 29 October 1843 – 3 September 1864) was a member of the Nobel family.
Emil Oskar Nobel | Introduction
Dubucand died in 1894, the month and day being unknown.
Alfred Dubucand | Death
The Nobel Prize (, ; ; ) is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”. Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace (Nobel called this prize "fellowship among nations"). Nobel prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist most famously known for the invention of dynamite. He died in 1896. In his will, he bequeathed all of his "remaining realisable assets" to be used to establish five prizes which became known as "Nobel Prizes".
Nobel Prize | Introduction
He died at his home in London in 1918. His nephew was the chemist Neil Kensington Adam.
Alfred Kensington | Biography
He died in Vienna.
Alfred Hofmann | Life
Alfred Nobel, in his last will and testament, stated that his wealth should be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in the fields of physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature. Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last one was written a year before he died and was signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish "kronor" (US$198 million, Euro€176 million in 2016), to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes. Owing to the level of skepticism surrounding the will, it was not until April 26, 1897 that it was approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament).
Nobel Prize in Physics | Background
As it happened, it was Nobel's brother Ludvig who had died, but Nobel, unhappy with the content of the obituary and concerned that his legacy would reflect poorly on him, was inspired to change his will. In his last will, Nobel requested that his money be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature. Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died at the age of 63. Because his will was contested, it was not approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) until 26 April 1897.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Background
Alfred Nobel died in December 1896. In January 1897 the contents of his will were unveiled. It was written as early as in 1895. He declared that a Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses", and that some of Nobel's money was to be donated to this prize. The Nobel Foundation manages the assets. The other Nobel Prizes were to be awarded by Swedish bodies (Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet) that already existed, whereas the responsibility for the Peace Prize was given to the Norwegian Parliament, specifically "a committee of five persons to be elected" by it.
Norwegian Nobel Committee | History
He died on 1 September 1987.
Alfred Kivell | Introduction
The prize has no connection to the Nobel Prize established by Alfred Nobel, with which it is often confused owing to the similarity of their names.
Alfred Noble Prize | Introduction
Alfred William Bjornstad died at the age of sixty on November 4, 1934.
Alfred William Bjornstad | Death and legacy
He died suddenly in Paris in February 1907, shortly after his return from receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. His death was attributed to an acute case of appendicitis.
Henri Moissan | Death
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
After two years of ill-health he died 19 April 1873. He left a small collection of highly finished drawings from portraits, which was sold at Christie's 23 February 1874.
Alfred Thomas Derby | Death
He died the same evening and was buried on 15 October 1903 in Berlin.
Alfred Görnemann | Introduction
On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality. After taxes and bequests to individuals, Nobel's will allocated 94% of his total assets, 31,225,000 Swedish kronor, to establish the five Nobel Prizes. This converted to £1,687,837 (GBP) at the time. In 2012, the capital was worth around SEK 3.1 billion (US$472 million, EUR 337 million), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account. The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology; the fourth is for literary work "in an ideal direction" and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.
Alfred Nobel | Nobel Prizes
Alfred Rethel died on December 1, 1859, at age 43 in Düsseldorf from the effects of a brain disease. In his last years, his brother Otto Rethel (1822–1892) took care of him, as well as his young wife Marie Grahl, the daughter of August Grahl, and their daughter Else Sohn-Rethel.
Alfred Rethel | Death
He died of cancer on 21 December 1898 aged 35. After his funeral in Kings College Chapel, he was buried at Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge.
Alfredo Kanthack | Death
He died on December 21, 1893, at his home in Central Falls, Rhode Island. He is interred at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island.
Alfred H. Littlefield | Death
Alfred Kroeber died in Paris on October 5, 1960.
A. L. Kroeber | Death
On February 21, 2001, Alfred Embarrato died of natural causes.
Alfred Embarrato | Death
He died at The Priory, Chatteris, on 5 October 1902.
Alfred Hensman | Introduction
He died in 1988 at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra.
Alfred Augustus Akainyah | Death
He died on 23 July 2007 in Munich. At the time of his death, Fischer was the oldest living German Nobel laureate. He was succeeded by Manfred Eigen, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 and is nine years younger than Fischer was.
Ernst Otto Fischer | Death
At 96, Ashkin was the oldest Nobel Prize laureate to be awarded the prize, until John B. Goodenough received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 at the age of 97. He died on September 21, 2020 at the age of 98.
Arthur Ashkin | Nobel Prize
It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. On some occasions the award has been postponed to the following year, most recently in 2018.
Nobel Prize in Literature | Introduction
He was married first to Bonnie Sue Goldberg, and later to Qingqing Lu. He died at his Gladwyne, Pennsylvania home from complications of cancer and diabetes, at age 79. He was survived by his sons Joshua and Adam, and daughter Erika.
Joel J. Nobel | Personal life
He died on March 10, 1970, from a heart attack at age 79.
Alfred V. Verville | Death
He died in 1884.
Benjamin Ulmann | Introduction
When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938 he was Chief Physician at the . Edmund Nobel was expelled from his post and eventually came to England. The two married on 28 January 1944 with an informal lunch attended by Professor Albert Neuberger, also a refugee from Germany. Edmund died from a heart complaint just two years later in 1946, at the age of 62. They had no children.
Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel | Personal life
After a long illness, Knudson died on July 10, 2016 at the age of 93 at his home in Philadelphia .
Alfred G. Knudson | Personal life
He died suddenly at the beginning of 1861, leaving a widow and seven children in distressed circumstances. The South Kensington Museum possesses two examples of his art.
Alfred Herbert (painter) | Introduction
In 1879 he was attacked by cardiac trouble, which increased from year to year. He continued engaged in his regular duties, until prostrated by cerebral hemorrhage on Monday, October 31, 1887. He died on the following Sunday, November 6, in his 45th year.
Oscar Harger | Introduction
Niemann died on 19 January 1861 in his hometown Goslar, reportedly of "suppuration of the lung". Niemann worked with mustard gas since 1860 and exposure to it probably resulted in his death. After his death, his colleague Wilhelm Lossen continued his investigations, and identified the chemical formula of cocaine in 1862.
Albert Niemann (chemist) | Death
He died on April 1, 1934. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
John Bernhard Rekstad | Biography
After suffering from ill health for some time, he died of lung cancer in Sydney, Australia in 1983, aged 64.
Alfred Sandor | Death
In 1991, he published a biography of Alfred Nobel that included many references to the extensive collection of Nobel's letters. Fant was appointed in 2005 an honorary doctorate in History and Philosophy of Science at Uppsala University.
Kenne Fant | Introduction
Johannes Nobel (June 25, 1887 – October 22, 1960) was a German indologist and Buddhist scholar.
Johannes Nobel | Introduction
Naujocks died of a heart attack in Hamburg on 4 April 1966, aged 54.
Alfred Naujocks | Later life
He died there in February 1916 at the age of 83.
Bernhard Nathanson | Biography
Kazin died in Manhattan on his 83rd birthday.
Alfred Kazin | Death
Alfred Tubbs died suddenly in his apartment at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on the morning of December 26, 1896.
Alfred L. Tubbs | Death
He died of his injuries next day.
Alfred Edward Sephton | Details
He died at Clifton, Bristol on 27 April 1931.
Alfred Clifford | Biography
After Alfred Nobel died, in 1896, and his will was disclosed, the heirs of his eldest brother, Robert, displeased by the fact that the major part of their uncle's estate was bequeathed to the creation of the Nobel Foundation and of the Nobel Prizes, started a legal action to invalidate it. Emanuel Nobel, however, as head of the younger branch of the family, played a fundamental role in supporting the execution of his uncle's wishes, pleading even before King Oscar II, and an agreement with Robert Nobel's heirs was reached in 1898, thus allowing the creation of the Nobel Prizes.
Emanuel Nobel | Emanuel's role in the execution of Alfred Nobel's will
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
In 2011, Canadian immunologist Ralph M. Steinman was awarded the prize; however, unknown to the committee, he had died three days before the announcement. The committee decided that since the prize was awarded "in good faith," it would be allowed to stand.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Time factor and death
Alfred Bird died on 15 December 1878 in Kings Norton, Worcestershire and is buried at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham. Famously his obituary in the journal of the Chemical Society (of which he was a fellow) discussed at length his skills and research but did not mention his other activity – the by then famous Bird's Custard and Bird's Jelly. It read:
Alfred Bird | Death
, 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 New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Alfred Herman | Background
Hans Nobel (1657 – 26 August 1732) was a Danish landowner and civil servant.
Hans Nobel | Introduction
There are only three other cases where a Nobel Prize has been presented posthumously.
William Vickrey | Introduction
He died on August 19, 1856, two days short of his 40th birthday, of a sudden fever.
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt | Death
He died in Winnipeg in 1934.
Alfred Garrioch | Introduction
On June 23, 1945, he died of a heart attack.
Oscar Hauge | Death
Cortot died on 15 June 1962, aged 84, of uremia from kidney failure in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Alfred Cortot | Death
Downward died in Mornington in 1930.
Alfred Downward | Introduction
Nobel was Lutheran and regularly attended the Church of Sweden Abroad during his Paris years, led by pastor Nathan Söderblom who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930. He became an agnostic in youth and was an atheist later in life, though still donated generously to the Church. Nobel travelled for much of his business life, maintaining companies in Europe and America while keeping a home in Paris from 1873 to 1891. He remained a solitary character, given to periods of depression. He remained unmarried, although his biographers note that he had at least three loves, the first in Russia with a girl named Alexandra who rejected his proposal.
Alfred Nobel | Personal life
"I wonder who died for him?" he said.
Eduard Roschmann | Death
The Nobel award ceremony was held on February 29, 1940, in Berkeley, California, due to World War II, in the auditorium of Wheeler Hall on the campus of the university. Lawrence received his medal from Carl E. Wallerstedt, Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. Robert W. Wood wrote to Lawrence and presciently noted "As you are laying the foundations for the cataclysmic explosion of uranium ... I'm sure old Nobel would approve."
Ernest Lawrence | Reception
Source: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
Alfred Stock Memorial Prize | Recipients
He died at the Alfred Hospital in Prahran, Victoria on 31 August 1957.
Arthur Newbound | Death
According to Lars Gyllensten, in the book "Minnen, bara minnen" ("Memories, Only Memories") published in 2000, Sartre himself or someone close to him got in touch with the Swedish Academy in 1975 with a request for the prize money, but was refused. In 1945, he had refused the Légion d'honneur. The Nobel prize was announced on 22 October 1964; on 14 October, Sartre had written a letter to the Nobel Institute, asking to be removed from the list of nominees, and warning that he would not accept the prize if awarded, but the letter went unread; on 23 October, "Le Figaro" published a statement by Sartre explaining his refusal.
Jean-Paul Sartre | Late life and death
He died in August 2005 at the age of 90.
Alfred F. Horrigan | Introduction
Toogood died in 1928 at South Norwood, London, England.
Alfred Toogood | Death
He died at Locksbottom, Kent in July 1944.
Alfred Sharland | Introduction
He died in St Leonards-on-Sea in 1910.
Alfred Marten | Life
Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel (born 14 February 1870, died probably at the end of October 1897) was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A. Andrée in 1897.
Knut Frænkel | Introduction
He died in Halle.
Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann | Biography
He received Samfundet De Nios Grand Prize posthumously in 1969.
Albert Viksten | Introduction
Alfred died on 26 October 899 at the age of 50 or 51. How he died is unknown, but he suffered throughout his life with a painful and unpleasant illness. His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms, and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. It is thought that he had either Crohn's disease or haemorrhoids. His grandson King Eadred seems to have suffered from a similar illness. Alfred was temporarily buried at the Old Minster in Winchester with his wife Ealhswith and later, his son Edward the Elder. Before his death he ordered the construction of the New Minster hoping that it would become a mausoleum for him and his family.
Alfred the Great | Death and burial
Alfred Cheetham (6 May 1866 – 22 August 1918) was a member of several Antarctic expeditions. He served as third officer for both the "Nimrod" expedition and Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition. He died at sea when his ship was torpedoed during the First World War.
Alfred Cheetham | Introduction
He died on May 15, 1966 in Freiburg.
Herbert Niebling | Later life
Steinman, had died three days earlier. The committee was debating about Steinman's prize, since the rule is that the prize is not awarded posthumously. The committee later decided that as the decision to award Steinman the prize "was made in good faith", it would remain unchanged.
Nobel Prize | Posthumous nominations
On October 3, 2011, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine announced that he had received one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity". The other half went to Bruce Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann, for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity". However, the committee was not aware that he had died three days earlier, on September 30, from pancreatic cancer. This created a complication, since the statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that the prize is not to be awarded posthumously. After deliberation, the committee decided that as the decision to award the prize "was made in good faith", it would remain unchanged.
Ralph M. Steinman | Awards
He died in Perth in March 1928, aged 63, from bronchopneumonia. He had married Josephine Laverton in 1893, with whom he had two children.
Alfred Langler | Introduction
He was also a short story contributor to the magazines "The Atlantic Monthly" and the "Boston Evening Transcript". Alfred Ollivant died in London on 19 January 1927. The Next Step, an essay on the missing policeman dedicated to the masses of mankind, silent and suffering. (1919)
Alfred Ollivant (writer) | Introduction
Riedl died on 8 September 2020 in Austria due to cancer.
Alfred Riedl | Death
On 23 January 1899 Maria Alexandrovna and her husband celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at Schloss Friedestein, the Duke's official residence in Gotha. Absent from the festivities was their only son, who was gravely ill. The exact circumstances of Alfred's death are not known, and varying accounts have been published. His sister Marie's memoirs simply say his health "broke down", and other writers have said that he had "consumption". "The Times" published an account stating he had died of a tumor, while the "Complete Peerage" gives the generally accepted account that he "shot himself". Various authors have speculated on reasons why he might have killed himself.
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Death
In response to the announcement of the Nobel prize, Rabindranath sent a telegram saying, "I beg to convey to the Swedish Academy my grateful appreciation of the breadth of understanding which has brought the distant near, and has made a stranger a brother." This was read out Mr. Clive, the-then British Chargé d'Affaires (CDA) in Sweden, at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, on 10 December 1913. Eight years after the Nobel Prize was awarded, Rabindranath went to Sweden in 1921 to give his acceptance speech.
Song Offerings | Nobel Prize in 1913
He was later occasionally active as a political commentator in the United Rundfunk program.
Alfred-Ingemar Berndt | Death
He was a father of two and suffered from a liver disease. He died on 11 February 2013, at the age of 52.
Alfred Zijai | Personal life and death
In 1946 Alfred became sluggish and overweight before being diagnosed with thyroid deficiency. He recovered from the illness after treatment however, and later returned to his former strength. Alfred died on 10 March 1948. The press at the time speculated that ‘his pet hate got him in the end’, linking Alfred's dislike of aeroplanes with the passage of one over the zoo shortly before his death. The actual cause of his demise was tuberculosis which he contracted a year before and despite his keepers best efforts, he had been unable to recover. His death was mourned by many of the regular visitors to the zoo, some of whom were even inspired to compose poems in his honour.
Alfred the Gorilla | Death
His health began to deteriorate in 1892. First, he suffered from rheumatism, then was diagnosed with throat cancer. In 1895, he travelled to Southern France, Algeria and Egypt in hopes of finding a warm, dry climate that would improve his health. A few weeks before his death, his friends brought him back to Knokke and he died at his home in Schaarbeek.
Alfred Verwee | Art and business in Knokke