Tag: Alfred Nobel

The question should rather be: what are the Nobel Prizes? Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) spent his illustrious career as an industrialist (he owned some 100 factories), chemist, engineer and inventor (355 patents, listed at https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/list-of-alfred-nobels-patents/); he was particularly known for his work with the armaments industry in Sweden, Norway, greater Europe,…