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* December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
The world's first successful oil tanker was Nobel's Zoroaster.
Although Nobel's will established the prizes, his plan was incomplete and, because of various other hurdles, it took five years before the Nobel Foundation could be established and the first prizes could be awarded on 10 December 1901 to, among others, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Nobel's and was
Nobel's third and longest-lasting relationship was with Sofie Hess who was from Vienna, whom he met in 1876.
This was followed by the closure of the gunpowder section at the Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Chorley, the section was closed and demolished at the end of World War II ; and ICI Nobel's Roslin gunpowder factory which closed in 1954.
Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.
One of the simplest plastic explosives was Nobel's Explosive No. 808, also known as Nobel 808 ( often just called Explosive 808 in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War ), developed by the British company Nobel Chemicals Ltd well before World War II.
Nobel's patent refers to the production of Celluloid using camphor and soluble nitrocellulose ; and this was taken to imply that Nobel was specifically distinguishing between the use of soluble and insoluble nitrocellulose.
Following Nobel's death the entire printed edition was destroyed, except for three copies.
In his will, it was declared that a Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded " to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses ", and that some of Nobel's money was to be donated to this prize.
One of the most prominent members of the Nobel family, he was the son of Immanuel Nobel ( also an engineering pioneer ) and Alfred Nobel's ( founder of the Nobel Prize ) older brother.
Economics was not on Nobel's original list of prize disciplines.
Although governed by the same rules as the others, this prize was criticized by many, including members of the Nobel Family, for violating Nobel's intent.
At the time Nobel's will led to much scepticism and criticism and thus it was not until April 26, 1897 that his will was approved by the Storting.
A World War I explosive factory, which was to be later known as NEF Pembrey was built, by Nobel's Explosives, with British Government approval, near the village of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
A dynamite factory appears to have been built on a site at Pembrey in 1882 by the New Explosive Company of Stowmarket ; it was bought by their competitors, Nobel's Explosives Company, in 1886 / 1887 and production was partially run-down.
Ownership was then transferred to the South Wales Explosive Company, a subsidiary of Nobel's.
The site was then used by Nobel's Explosives to build a TNT / propellant factory in 1914 with Government approval.

Nobel's and with
In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.
Nobel's portrait also appears on the obverse of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Medal for the Prize in Economics, but with a slightly different design.
The Nobel prize is presented to the recipient ( s ) at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, along with a diploma and a certificate for the monetary award.
He also often experimented with nitroglycerin with his sons, which led to his son, Emil Oskar Nobel's, death because of an explosion at his father's factory Heleneborg in Stockholm in 1864.
* 2001 Crown Inks is sold, in line with Akzo Nobel's exit from the ink industry ( now part of Flint Group )
The show had tough competition, such as WRIK / WLUZ's Sandra Zaiter show, WAPA-TV's El Show de Pacheco ( with Joaquin Monserrat as Pacheco ) and WKAQ-TV's El show del Tío Nobel ( Uncle Nobel's Show ).
In 1862, Curtis & Harvey took over the site They later merged with Nobel's Explosives Co. and finally became incorporated into Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. in 1926.
In accordance with Nobel's will, the primary task of the Nobel Foundation is to manage the fortune Nobel left after him in a fund.

Nobel's and named
A few months later he joined the Nobel's mechanical factory owned by a Swede named Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), brother of Alfred Nobel of Nobel Prize fame, where he worked until 1877.

Nobel's and who
In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.
To widespread astonishment, Nobel's last will specified that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the " greatest benefit on mankind " in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who
The executors of his will were Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, who formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organise the prizes.
The executors of his will were Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist who formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organize the prizes.

Nobel's and rejected
From 1901 to 1912, the committee's work reflected an interpretation of the " ideal direction " stated in Nobel's will as " a lofty and sound idealism ", which caused Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola and Mark Twain to be rejected.

Nobel's and .
Following various business failures, Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives.
Alfred Nobel's death mask, at the Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
On 3 September 1864, a shed, used for the preparation of nitroglycerin, exploded at the factory in Heleneborg Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil.
Nobel's brothers Ludvig and Robert exploited oilfields along the Caspian Sea and became hugely rich in their own right.
In 1876 Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary.
The Björkborn manor house, Nobel's residence on the property of the Bofors iron works at the time of his death.
After his death, according to his biographers Evlanoff, Fluor, and Fant, Nobel's letters were locked within the Nobel Institute in Stockholm.
An off-shoot of this research resulted in Nobel's invention of ballistite, the precursor of many modern smokeless powder explosives and still used as a rocket propellant.
After taxes and bequests to individuals, Nobel's will allocated 94 % of his total assets, 31, 225, 000 Swedish kronor, to establish the five Nobel Prizes.
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.
* Sri Kantha, S. Alfred Nobel's unusual creativity ; an analysis.
* Sri Kantha, S. Could nitroglycerine poisoning be the cause of Alfred Nobel's anginal pains and premature death?
Alfred Nobel's 1864 patent application for nitroglycerin.
" Nobel's Extra Dynamite " manufactured by Nobel's old company, Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget.
* Nobel Prizes awarded ( December 10 ) on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
This left the sole United Kingdom gunpowder factory at ICI Nobel's Ardeer site in Scotland ; it too closed in October 1976.

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