The Nobel Prizes are named after Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), a Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist best known for ...

The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century businessman and chemist from Sweden. He held more than 300 patents, but his claim to fame before the prizes was having invented dynamite ...

The Nobel prizes are set to be announced from this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday and ending with the unveiling of the winners in economics on October 13. The ...

Alfred Nobel's will established prestigious awards for science, literature, and peace, but notably excluded mathematics.

The laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, one of the world's top accolades, will be announced on Friday in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works: ...

Five of the prizes are presented at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, but the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, ...

The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death. The announcement of the prestigious prizes comes much earlier, however, and this year’s installment ...

SWEDEN - NOVEMBER 11: Medal for the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to British physicist George Paget Thomson (1892-1975) in 1937. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) The Nobel Prize is one of the most ...