Nobel
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The Nobel family
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- Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel
The Nobel family
Nobel family
The Nobel family is a prominent Swedish family closely related to the history both of Sweden and of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its legacy includes its outstanding contributions to philanthropy and to the development of the armament industry and of the oil industry...
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- Alfred NobelAlfred NobelAlfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...
, (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, instituted the Nobel Prizes - Immanuel NobelImmanuel Nobel'Immanuel Nobel' , the younger, was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing. He was a member of the Nobel family and the father of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel and Alfred Nobel...
, (1801-1872), father of Ludvig and Alfred Nobel - Robert NobelRobert NobelRobert Hjalmar Nobel was the oldest son of Immanuel Nobel and his wife Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell, brother of Ludvig and Alfred Nobel....
, (1829-1896), brother of Alfred Nobel, pioneer of the oil industry - Ludvig NobelLudvig NobelLudvig Immanuel Nobel was an engineer, a noted businessman and a humanitarian. One of the most prominent members of the Nobel family, he was the son of Immanuel Nobel and Alfred Nobel's older brother...
, (1831-1888), brother of Alfred Nobel, founder of Branobel and its first president - Emil Oskar NobelEmil Oskar NobelEmil Nobel was a member of the Nobel family, the youngest son of Immanuel Nobel, the younger, and of his wife Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell. He was brother of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel and Alfred Nobel. Emil died on 3 September 1864, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with...
, (1843-1864), brother of Alfred Nobel - Emanuel NobelEmanuel NobelEmanuel Nobel was a Swedish-Russian oil baron, the eldest son of Ludvig Nobel and his first wife, Mina Ahlsell, grandson of Immanuel Nobel and nephew of Alfred Nobel.-Businessman:...
, (1859-1932), son of Ludvig Nobel and Branobel's second president - Marta Helena Nobel-OleinikoffMarta Helena Nobel-OleinikoffMarta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff was a Swedish-Russian physician and philanthropist and member of the Nobel family....
, (1881-1973), daughter of Ludvig Nobel - Claes NobelClaes NobelClaes Nobel , a native of Sweden, is grandson of Ludvig Nobel and grand nephew to Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prizes....
, great grandnephew of Alfred - Nobel Brothers Museum, in BakuBakuBaku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
, AzerbaijanAzerbaijanAzerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to... - Baku Nobel Heritage Fund, established in 2004 as a civil initiative to restore the Nobel brothers' heritage in BakuBakuBaku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
- Nobel Family Museum, in RybinskRybinskRybinsk is the second largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna Rivers. Population: It is served by Rybinsk Staroselye airport.-Early history:...
, Russia
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- BranobelBranobelThe Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited,or Branobel , was an oil company set up by Ludvig Nobel and Baron Peter von Bilderling, in Baku, Azerbaijan...
, or The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, an oil industry founded by Ludvig Nobel - NobeliteNobeliteNobelite was the common designation of the tens of thousands of employees of the companies owned by the Nobel family in Russia during the 19th century and until the Russian Revolution, such as Branobel and the Machine-Building Factory Ludvig Nobel....
, an employee of the Nobel family's companies - NobeliumNobeliumNobelium is a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102. It was first correctly identified in 1966 by scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Soviet Union...
, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel - Nobel Industries (Scotland), a UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel
- Nobel Industries (Sweden) - UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel, merged in 1994 with Akzo.
- Nobel BiocareNobel BiocareNobel Biocare is a company operating in dental implantology and aesthetic dental solutions. The headquarters are located in Kloten near Zurich, Switzerland...
, a bio-tech company, formerly a subsidiary of Nobel Industries - Akzo NobelAkzo NobelAkzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 80 countries, and employs approximately 55,000 people. Sales in 2010 were EUR...
, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994 - Nobel, OntarioNobel, OntarioNobel is a village located on the shores of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Municipality of McDougall in the District of Parry Sound. The community is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite....
, a village located in Ontario, Canada. - Nobel (crater)Nobel (crater)Nobel is a crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the northern edge of the vast skirt of ejecta surrounding the Mare Orientale impact basin. Less than three crater diameters to the south of Nobel is the larger crater Elvey, and to the west-southwest is the smaller Pease....
, a crater on the far side of the Moon - FuldamobilFuldamobilFuldamobil is the name of a series of small cars produced by Elektromaschinenbau Fulda GmbH of Fulda, Germany, and Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeugbau of Wilhelmshaven between 1950 and 1969. Though numbers produced were relatively small, the cars attracted sufficient attention to see licensed...
a German car, manufactured under license in the U.K. and Chile as the Nobel. - The Nobel SchoolThe Nobel SchoolThe Nobel School is an oversubscribed secondary school of average size. Almost all pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils with learning difficulties and/or disabilities is average, as is the proportion with statements of special educational needs. The percentage of pupils eligible for...
, a Secondary School in Stevenage, England. - The Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg)Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg)The Nobel Ice Egg, sometimes also referred to as the Snowflake egg, is a jewelled enamelled Fabergé Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé, for the Swedish-Russian oil baron and industrialist Emanuel Nobel between 1913 and 1914.-History:The egg was made...
- Nobel (typeface)Nobel (typeface)Nobel is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Sjoerd Henrik de Roos and Dick Dooijes in the period 1929–1935 for the Amsterdam Type foundry). Capitalizing upon Lettergieterij Amsterdam's substantial financial interest in the Berlin typefoundry H. Berthold AG, de Roos conceived of a revival...
, a geometric, sans-serif typeface.