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Alfred  Nobel
[1833-96]

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"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results."

official Alfred Nobel bio at Nobel Prize website
Alfred Nobel entry at Wikipedia

Books  By  or  About  Alfred  Nobel

"Nemesis: A Prose Tragedy in Four Acts" [1896] by Alfred Nobel
About Roman murderess Beatrice Cenci [1577-99], partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Cenci"; the playscript was printed at the time of Nobel's death; considered scandalous and blasphemous, the entire stock except for three copies was destroyed immediately after his death; one surviving edition (bilingual Swedish–Esperanto) was published in Sweden in 2003; it has been translated into Slovenian via the Esperanto version and into French; it was published in Russia in another bilingual (Russian–Esperanto) edition in 2010.

"The Life of Alfred Nobel" [William Heineman Ltd. 1929] by H. Schück & R. Sohlman

"Alfred Nobel: The Loneliest Millionaire" [Ward Ritchie Press, 1969] by M. Evlanoff & M. Fluor

"The Legacy of Alfred Nobel" [The Bodley Head, 1983] by R. Sohlman, Translated by E. Schubert
Swedish original "Ett Testamente" published in 1950

	"Alfred Nobel: A Biography" [1993] by Kenne Fant, Translated by Marianne Ruuth Arcade Publng 9x6 pb [8/2014] for $12.34 Arcade Publng 9¼ x6 pb [10/2006] for $14.01 Arcade Publng 9½x6½ hardcover [10/93] out of print/used
	"Alfred Nobel: Inventive Thinker" [2004] by Tristan Boyer Binns Franklin Watts library hardcover [2/2004] out of print/used Franklin Watts library hardcover [2/2004] out of print/used

http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Nobel-Behind-Peace-Stories/dp/1585362816/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Nobel-Inventor-Dynamite-Biography-ebook/dp/B00A9YKUXO/
http://www.amazon.com/Dynamite-Peace-Story-Alfred-Nobel/dp/0316569046/
http://www.amazon.com/Dynamite-peace-story-Alfred-Nobel/dp/B0007DXRY6/
http://www.amazon.com/Nobel-Biography-Alfred-Nicholas-Halasz/dp/1258139758/
http://www.amazon.com/Nobel-Biography-Alfred-Nicholas-Halasz/dp/1258036843/
http://www.amazon.com/Nobel-Prize-Story-Alfred-Famous/dp/1554077117/

Movies  &  Television  About  Alfred  Nobel

"The Story of Alfred Nobel" short [1939] /tt0031982/

"No Greater Love" aka "The Alfred Nobel Story" [1952] /tt0043635/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Nobel-Story-Hilde-Krahl/dp/B000068TP2/

"Dynamite, The Story of Alfred Nobel" TV movie [1954] /tt1480067/

"Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite" TV movie [1983] /tt0297718/

"Alfred" aka "Alfred Nobel" [1995] /tt0112316/

"Nobel: The Man" [2001]
http://www.amazon.com/Nobel-Man-Prize-Science/dp/B002G1NZT4/

"Alfred Nobel" [2006] episode /tt0858167/
of the "Nisse Hults Historiska Snedsteg" TV series

"Eine Liebe für den Frieden - Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel" TV movie [2015] /tt4353858/

The  Nobel  Prizes
official Nobel Prizes website
official Nobel Foundation website
official list of all Nobel Prizes
Swedish Academy [est. 1786]
Prof. Nils-Göran Larsson, chair of the Swedish Nobel Committee (2022)
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (2022)
Nobel Prize Museum (Nobelmuseet) [open 2001], Börshuset, Stortorget, Oldtown Stockholm, Sweden

search for books on keywords 'nobel+prize+winner' {returns over 900 titles} at Amazon
several articles over recent years at Quanta Magazine [est. 2012]

"The Prize: A Novel" [1962 bestseller] by Irving Wallace [1916-90] Six people receive a telephone call that invites them to Stockholm, Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize, where each of them becomes engulfed in personal and political intrigue. Signet mass pb [1962] out of print/used Signet movie tie-in mass pb [1962] out of print/used New English Library 8½x5¾ pb [1978] out of print/used Simon & Schuster 8½x6 hardcover [1962] out of print/80+ used book entry at Wikipedia

"The Prize" feature film [M.G.M. Dec 1963] "a fury of excitement, suspense, and terror . . . in which the scientists themselves are - The Prize!" • Produced by Pandro S. Berman & Kathryn Hereford; directed by Mark Robson; screenplay by Ernest Lehman; starring Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle, Gérard Oury, Sergio Fan-toni, Kevin McCarthy, Leo G. Carroll, Sacha Pitoëff, Jacqueline Beer, John Wengraf, Don Dubbins, Virginia Christine, Rudolph Anders, Martine Bartlett, Karl Swenson, John Qualen, Ned Wever, Britt Ekland Warner Bros. Archive Collection remastered color Blu-ray [1/2019] for $17.92 Warner Bros. Archive Collection remastered color DVD [8/2011] for $17.99 M.G.M./Warner color VHS [9/98] for $12.80 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [5/2011 upload; 3:27] online at YouTube

"Nobel Son" feature film [Freestyle Releasing Dec 2008] Just as he is awarded the Nobel Prize, a California chemist's life falls apart: one of his mistresses threatens blackmail and his son is kidnapped for $2M ransom • Filmed in Los Angeles, California area; co-produced, co-written & directed by Randall Miller; co-produced & co-written by Jody Savin; starring Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Lindy Booth, Tracey Walter, Ted Danson {cameo}, Ernie Hudson, Hal B. Klein, Matt Winston, Kirk Baily, Joyce Guy, Kevin West, Wayne Lopez, Dawn Balkin, Johanna Torell, Mark Famiglietti, Valerie Long, Juliette Jeffers, Greg Collins, Danika Quinn Osterman, TV reporter Kelly Lange, TV reporter Sam Rubin, Mary Pat Gleason, Matthew Kimbrough, Reid Collums, Larry Hankin, Lucy DeVito, Dean Rader-Duval, Stuart Silverman, Marina Black Fox Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [2010] import/used  in PAL format only Alliance Films widescreen color DVD [6/2009] for $13.51 Fox Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [6/2009] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • watch 9/2008 official trailer [2:31] online at YouTube

"Nobel's Last Will (Nobels Testamente)" [Nordisk Film Sweden March 2012] At the Nobel Banquet, reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses the attempted murder of a Nobel laureate and the murder of a scientist; as she digs further into the events surrounding that night, all is not what it seems; broadcast also on Swedish TV as the first of a series of Annika Bengtzon TV movies • Directed by Peter Flinth; screenplay by Pernilla Oljelund, based on the Liza Marklund novel; starring Malin Crépin {as Annika Bengtzon}, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée, Kajsa Ernst, Erik Johansson, Felix Engström, Richard Ulfsäter, Antje Traue, Per Graffman, Björn Granath, Ia Langhammer, Karl Linnertorp, Anna von Rosen, Johan Holmberg, Pia Johansson, Saga Gärde, Jackie Jakubowski, Edvin Ryding, Elvira Franzén, Nils Grönberg, Sofia Rönne-gård, Daniel Träff, Yngve Dahlberg, Max Lapitskij, Thomas Ritter, Keith Foster, Catherine Graffte, Fredrik Hammarström available on DVD as Episode 1 of the Annika Bengtzon TV movies [2012] - in Swedish w/English subtitles Episodes 1-3: MHz Networks widescreen color DVD [7/2013] 3 disks for $26.68 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige" [2000] by Burton Feldman Arcade Publng 9x6 pb [9/2012] for $16.95 Arcade Publng 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2000] for $19.99

"Nobel Quotes: Inspirational and Perplexing Quotes of Nobel Prize Winners" [2012] by George Chityil Kindle Edition from Macadu, Ltd. [11/2012] for 99¢ {sic} 200 pages of quotations from Nobel laureates since 1901, including Kofi Annan, Samuel Beckett, Willy Brandt, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, Milton Friedman, André Gide, Rudyard Kipling, Paul Krugman, Wangari Maathai, Gabriel García Márquez, Mother Teresa, Pablo Neruda, Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, and William Butler Yeats

Alfred Nobel's will stipulated that no distinction of race or color or nationality should determine who receives the awards. Unaware of this, this writer/webmaster exchanged emails with someone at the Nobel website about why they did not display the national flag for each laureate (to make it easier to extract American laureates, for example) and the response was that the organization is bound not to do such a thing. The intention of this page is to highlight winners of the United States, so the plan is to build the six lists, marking Americans with the U.S. flag on the left-hand side and gradually adding national flags for other laureates on the right-hand side.

German physicist Lise Meitner [1878-1968]: entry at Wikipedia
she was nominated 19 times between 1924 and 1948 for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and 29 times between 1937 and 1965 for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The  Nobel  Peace  Prize
search for books on keywords 'nobel+peace+prize' {returns 300+ titles} at Amazon
Wikipedia's list of all Nobel Peace Prize laureates

2023 • imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi [b. 1972] of Iran   
currently jailed in Tehran, she has been a prisoner for most of the past two decades
Prize awarded "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"
entry at Wikipedia

2024 • anti-nuclear weapons group Nihon Hidankyo [est. 1956] of Japan   
survivors of U.S. atomic bombings formed 'Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations' (Nihon Gensuibaku Higaisha Dantai Kyögi-kai),
in 1956; name shortened to Nihon Hidankyo; the group has been pressuring the Japanese government to improve support of the victims and lobbying governments
for the abolition of nuclear weapons; Prize awarded "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony
that nuclear weapons must never be used again".
entry at Wikipedia • official website (English or Japanese)

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Nobel Peace Prize Page

The  Nobel  Prize  in  Literature
official list of all Nobel Prizes in Literature
entry at Wikipedia
Wikipedia's list of all Nobel Prizes in Literature laureates
search for books on keywords 'nobel+prize+literature' {returns over 400+ titles} at Amazon

2023 • playwright & novelist Jon Fosse [b. 1959] of Norway   
"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fosse
browse the Jon Fosse Store {returns 70 titles} at Amazon

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Nobel Prize in Literature Page

The  Nobel  Prize  in  Physics
Wikipedia's list of all Nobel Prizes in Physics laureates

Marie Sklodowska Curie [1867-1934]
the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person and only woman to win twice
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Werner Karl Heisenberg [1901-76] won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932
for the creation of quantum mechanics = http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1932/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg

“If I could explain it to the average person, [it] wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.” - in 1965
~~~ Richard P. Feynman [1918-88]

"The 4-Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and The Race To Discover The Rest of Reality" [2011] by science writer Richard Panek 'The Inside Story of The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics' which was divided/shared among Saul Perlmutter (University of California Berkeley), Brian P. Schmidt (Australian National University), and Adam G. Riess (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" Super lucky timing for the author: cosmology was shaken at its foundations in 1998 as two research teams presented their findings about supernovae and dark matter; this book about them was published in January 2011 and the two teams were announced as joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in October 2011! Kindle Edition from Mariner Books [1/2011] for $14.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [10/2011] for $12.59 Oneworld Publns pb [2012] for $17.45 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2011] for $9.64

2022 • Alain Aspect (of France), John F. Clauser (of USA), and Anton Zeilinger (of Austria)
for their achievements in quantum mechanics; the trio's work "has laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Aspect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clauser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger

2023 • experimental physicist Pierre Agostini (of Ohio State University, USA), experimental physicist Ferenc Krausz
(of Germany's Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics), and physicist Anne Geneviève L'Huillier (of Sweden's Lund University)
for their pioneering research into electrons in flashes of light and developing the ability to illuminate reality on almost inconceivably brief timescales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Agostini [b. 1941]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Krausz [b. 1962]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_L%27Huillier [b. 1958]

  2024 • John Hopfield (of USA) and 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton (of Canada)   
"Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year's laureates in physics
have helped make this possible." Shared Prize awarded for their "foundational discoveries" in artificial intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopfield [b. 1933]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton [b. 1947]

The  Nobel  Prize  in  Chemistry
Wikipedia's list of all Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates

Marie Sklodowska Curie [1867-1934]
the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person and only woman to win twice
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie [1897-1956]
awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 with her husband
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie

2022 • Carolyn R. Bertozzi (of USA), Morten P. Meldal (of Denmark), and K. Barry Sharpless (of USA)
for producing "an ingenious tool for building molecules" ... that has "led to a revolution in how chemists think about linking molecules together"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_R._Bertozzi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_P._Meldal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Barry_Sharpless

  2023 • Prof. Moungi G. Bawendi [at M.I.T.], Louis E. Brus [at Columbia University],
and solid state physicist Alexei I. Ekimov [of New York]
for work tracking electron movement - the quantum behaviors of semiconductor nanocrystals, for discovering a category of minute marvels
now known as 'quantum dots', and for developing a precise method of synthesizing them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moungi_Bawendi [b. 1961]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_E._Brus [b. 1943]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei I. Ekimov [b. 1945]

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry paper [1990] co-authored by Bawendi and Brus
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.pc.41.100190.002401

  2024 • researchers David Baker (of USA), Demis Hassabis (of U.K.), and John Jumper (of USA & U.K.)   
shared Prize awarded for their work in the analysis and design of proteins using AI and other computational tools to predict how proteins fold, based on their
chemical sequences, and to design new proteins not found in nature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baker_(biochemist) [b. 1962] http://www.bakerlab.org/ at the University of Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis [b. 1975] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind in U.K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Jumper [b. 1985] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind in U.K.

The  Nobel  Prize  in  Physiology or Medicine
Wikipedia's list of all Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates

2022 • geneticist Svante Pääbo [b. 1955] of Sweden   
for studying the DNA of our extinct human ancestors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_P%C3%A4%C3%A4bo

  2023 • biochemist Katalin Karikó [b. 1955] and immunologist Drew Weissman [b. 1959] of U.S.A.
shared Prize awarded for discoveries leading to mRNA vaccines, such as those that protect against COVID-19
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3 = the 13th woman to win the prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Weissman

  2024 • American scientists Victor Ambros [b. 1953] and Gary Ruvkun [b. 1952]
shared Prize awarded "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ambros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ruvkun

The  Nobel  Prize  in  Economic  Sciences
Established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank on its 300th anniversary.

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences official homepage
official list of all Nobel Prizes in Economic Sciences
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences entry at Wikipedia
Wikipedia's list of all Nobel in Economic Sciences laureates
search for books on keywords 'nobel+prize+economics' at Amazon

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Nobel Prize in Economics Page

Friends  &  Family
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden-Norway; he worked for years to improve the safety of nitroglycerine and invented dynamite in 1867;
during his life he was issued 355 patents internationally; he died of a stroke in Sanremo, Italy in December 1896.

brother Robert Hjalmar Nobel [1829-96]
brother Ludvig Nobel [1831-1888]
brother Emil Oskar Nobel [1843-64] died in a factory explosion

first love Alexandra in Russia, who rejected his proposal of marriage

secretary & longtime friend Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky von Suttner [1843-1914]
- hired in 1876, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1905

lover Sofie Hess from Vienna [] together 1876-94

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L i n k s
official Alfred Nobel bio at Nobel Prize website
Alfred Nobel [1833-96] entry at Wikipedia

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