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

The Life of Alfred Nobel.

* Alfred Nobel US Patent No 78, 317, dated 26 May 1868

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

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

Alfred Nobel.

* Alfred Nobel – Man behind the Prizes

af: Alfred Nobel

als: Alfred Nobel

ang: Alfred Nobel

an: Alfred Nobel

ast: Alfred Nobel

ay: Alfred Nobel

The English publication rights to the book are owned by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc and although the publishers had been made aware of the problems with the English text, they long insisted that there was really no need for a new translation, even though Simone de Beauvoir herself explicitly requested one in a 1985 interview: " I would like very much for another translation of The Second Sex to be done, one that is much more faithful ; more complete and more faithful.

Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

His last words to his brother Alfred were:

* 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

* 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

* November 27 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

Æthelred had married Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great of Wessex, and she assumed power when her husband became ill at some time in the last ten years of his life.

Director Alfred Hitchcock also saw the 1950 screen test and would become one of Kelly's last mentors.

After the back-to-back filming of Rear Window, Toko-Ri, Country Girl and Green Fire, Kelly flew to France, along with department store heir Bernard " Barney " Strauss, to begin work on her third and last film for Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief.

Crawford was cremated and her ashes placed in a crypt with her last husband, Alfred Steele, in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.

As was to be his usual practice in his later operas, Sullivan left the overture for the last moment, sketching it out and entrusting it to the company's music director, in this case Alfred Cellier, to complete.

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

One of Alfred Brendel's last concerts takes place at the Grafenegg Music Festival in Vienna.

Narratives derived from hadith involving these verses can be read in, among other places, the biographies of Muhammad by al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa'd ( who was a scribe of Waqidi ), al-Tabarī, and Ibn Ishaq ( the last as reconstructed by Alfred Guillaume ).

From 1900 the numbers of palagi traders in Tuvalu declined, with the last of the palagi traders being Fred Whibley on Niutao and Alfred Restieaux on Nukufetau.

* The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus ' reign.

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.

His father was Alfred Klemens Philipp Friedrich Justinian, the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

" The campus was landscaped by van der Rohe's close colleague at IIT, Alfred Caldwell, " the last representative of the Prairie School of landscape architects.

His parents were the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, and Caroline née von Üxküll-Gyllenband.

This was the last film scored by Alfred Newman, who died shortly before the film's release.

These were the last words of Alfred Delp.

Starting in 1962, she began to be credited as Andrea Darvi, which she used as a stage name until 1966, when she gave her last acting performances: an installment of I Spy and an unbilled role in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain.