Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

Alfred Nobel's death mask, at the Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

* Nobel, Alfred Bernhard in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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* Evlanoff, M. and Fluor, M. Alfred Nobel – The Loneliest Millionaire.

* Sohlman, R. The Legacy of Alfred Nobel, transl.

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* Alfred Nobel – Man behind the Prizes

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Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

One of these was Polish Philosopher Alfred Korzybski's General semantics, which was espoused in the US by Stuart Chase.

* Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell ( 1910 – 1913, 1927 2nd edition reprinted 1962 ), Principia Mathematica to * 56, Cambridge at the University Press, London UK, no ISBN or US card catalog number.

A feasible linear induction motor is described in the US patent 782312 ( 1905-inventor Alfred Zehden of Frankfurt-am-Main ), for driving trains or lifts.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

* US 17 / 92-US 17 / 92 enters the city from Lake Alfred in the west, bisecting the downtown as Hinson Avenue until turning north on 17th Street and exiting towards Davenport.

* US 17 / 92-Lake Alfred lies near the western end of the concurrency between US 17 and US 92.

* Alfred B. Kittredge, US senator from South Dakota

* Alfred Martin Ray, Buffalo Soldier, served in the U. S. Army from 1872 to 1903, planted the US flag on San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898.

It was founded by his son Alfred Beckley ( US Army general and Confederate militia commander, born in Washington, D. C .).

In 1924, Alfred Richard Orage, a British intellectual, the editor of the magazine, The New Age, was appointed by Gurdjieff as the assistant of another old follower of Gurdjieff to lead study groups in America, but due to Gurdjieff ’ s nearly fatal automobile accident, the one who was supposed to lead the groups never went to US and Orage decided to lead the groups on his own initiation.

Science Friday is funded by the NPR member stations that broadcast the program, by individual donors, and by foundation and corporate underwriters including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the Noyce Foundation, the S. D.

* Alfred Aho, Award-winning computer scientist, member of US National Academies.

Alfred University was started in 1836 as part of the Alfred Select teacher's college and is considered one of the oldest coeducational institutions in the US.

* 1905, Alfred Heurich, an architectural student from Leipzig, Germany, invented the " Faltboot ", a folding kayak called Folboat in the US.

The recent history of OSINT began in 1988 when General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps, called for a redirection of US intelligence away from the collapsing Soviet Union and toward non-state actors and Third World zones of instability.

After a few attempts to negotiate in behalf of the complaining settlers, including failed attempts by Agent Lindsay Applegate in 1864 – 6 and Superintendent Huntigton in 1867, the Modoc finally relocated in 1869 following a council between Kintpuash ( also known as Captain Jack ); Alfred B. Meacham, the US Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon that replaced Huntigton ; O. C.

His efforts to cover up Jeannie's antics, because of his fear that he would be dismissed from the space program if her existence were known, brings him to the attention of NASA's resident psychiatrist, US Air Force Colonel Dr. Alfred Bellows.

Studies carried out from the 1990s through 2011 by researchers from Columbia U, Computing Research Association ( CRA ), Duke U, Georgetown U, Harvard U, National Research Council of the NAS, RAND Corporation, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers U, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Stanford U, SUNY Buffalo, UC Davis, UPenn Wharton School, Urban Institute, and US Dept.

The Allan Clan later established in Puerto Rico, then splintered and became known as de Allan and finally renamed DeAllen when the exiled patriarch Alfred ( aka Alfredo ) fled to the US in the late 1800s.

Both Dmitri Shostakovich ( Hamlet, 1964 ) and Alfred Schnittke ( Symphony No. 8, 1998 ) wrote works that use the harpsichord as part of the orchestral texture.

** 102. nobelium, No, named after Alfred Nobel ( 1956 ).

The cover of Mad Magazine No. 129 by artist Norman Mingo, dated September 1969, showed a split Alfred E. Neuman, the " old " Alfred on the left wearing a " My Country: Right or Wrong " lapel button, and the " young " long-haired Alfred on the right with a " Make Love Not War " button, and the cover statement " MAD Widens the Generation Gap.

At 20, he played the son in the Broadway production of There Shall Be No Night, which won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

A review in The Wire magazine said, " No other record has ever come as close to realising Alfred Jarry's desire ' to make the soul monstrous ' – or even had the vision or invention to try.

* W. J. Blok and Don Pigozzi, " Alfred Tarski's Work on General Metamathematics ", The Journal of Symbolic Logic, v. 53, No. 1 ( Mar., 1988 ), pp. 36 – 50.

* Nobelium, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel

* Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 7

* Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 8

Alfred Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) lived at No 12 in 1880 – 1.

* Anthony Carty: " Alfred Verdross and Othmar Spann: German Romantic Nationalism, National Socialism and International Law ", European Journal of International Law Vol. 6, No. 1 ( see also nationalism )

* A. A. Taylor, " MEDICINE LODGE PEACE COUNCIL ", Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 2, No. 2, June 1924 ( first-person account by Alfred A. Taylor, future governor of Tennessee, about events when he accompanied his father Nathaniel Green Taylor of the IPC )

* Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 5

* Alfred Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 1 ( 1977, for two violins, harpsichord, prepared piano and orchestra )

* Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 2

* Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 3

* Davies, Alfred G .: " Queensland's Pioneer Journals and Journalists ", Historical Society of Queensland Journal ( RHSQ ) vol 3, No 4, 1936 – 47, p265 – 283.

Some other artists, authors and works published in transition included Samuel Beckett ( Assumption, For Future Reference ), Kay Boyle ( Dedicated to Guy Urquhart ), H. D. ( Gift, Psyche, Dream, No, Socratic ), Max Ernst ( Jeune Filles en des Belles Poses, The Virgin Corrects the Child Jesus before Three Witnesses ), Stuart Gilbert ( The Aeolus Episode in Ulysses, Function of Words, Joyce Thesaurus Minusculus ), Juan Gris ( Still Life ), Ernest Hemingway ( Three Stories, Hills like White Elephants ), Franz Kafka ( The Metamorphosis ), Alfred Kreymborg ( from: Manhattan Anthology ), Pablo Picasso ( Petite Fille Lisant ), Muriel Rukeyser ( Lover as Fox ), Gertrude Stein ( An Elucidation, The Life and Death of Juan Gris, Tender Buttons, Made a Mile Away ), William Carlos Williams ( The Dead Baby, The Somnambulists, A Note on the Recent Work of James Joyce, Winter, Improvisations, A Voyage to Paraguay ).

* No 4 Bell: Alfred Munnings, painter, 1878-1959 ( the famous equestrian artist, who resided at The White Hart, Holybourne ).

The Food of the Gods was first adapted for the comics in January 1961, for Classics Illustrated No. 160, with a painted cover by Gerald McCann, script by Alfred Sundel, and interior artwork by Tony Tallarico.

The latter's sixth piano sonata is dedicated to Myaskovsky's memory and the early ' Symphony No. 0 ' of Golubev's pupil Alfred Schnittke, released on CD in 2007, has striking reminiscences of Myaskovsky's symphonic style and procedures.

* Symphony No. 1, by Alfred Schnittke, composed 1969 – 1974.