You probably know the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel as the founder of the Nobel Prize and the inventor of dynamite, but he created even more than that over his lifetime, with 355 patents in his name by ...

Imagine being woken up at dawn by a phone call telling you you've just won the world's most famous prize. Every October, the world turns its attention to a set of announcements that can change lives ...

- Nobel hoped that the destructiveness of dynamite, the 1866 invention that made him rich, would help bring an end to war. - He was friends with a well-known peace campaigner, Bertha von Suttner. Some ...

The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South Korean novelist for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical ...