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Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin.
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In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a forerunner of cordite.
Dynamite was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Krümmel ( Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany ), and patented in 1867.
Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder.
As nitroglycerin was unstable, it was replaced by nitrocellulose, smokeless powder, dynamite and gelignite ( the two latter invented by Alfred Nobel ).
While at General Electric, from 1909 – 1950, Langmuir advanced several basic fields of physics and chemistry, invented the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the hydrogen welding technique, and was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry.
Nobel also invented ballistite, a precursor to many smokeless military explosives, especially the British smokeless powder cordite.
* 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, " I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize ".
J. Thomson ( 1856-1940 ): showed in 1897 that cathode rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle ( later named the electron ), discovered isotopes, invented the mass spectrometer, awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.
Allan McLeod Cormack of Tufts University in Massachusetts independently invented a similar process, and both Hounsfield and Cormack shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
The following year, 1887, Alfred Nobel invented and patented a smokeless propellant he called Ballistite.
Originally heated by slow-burning coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén ( 1869 – 1937 ), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company ( Swedish: Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator, English: Joint stock company Swedish Gas Accumulator ).
Theodor Svedberg invented the analytical ultracentrifuge in 1925, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1926 for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge.
The geniuses who invented the pyramid of derivatives at Long-Term Capital Management were awarded the Nobel Prize for their cleverness, not long before the whole edifice came crashing down with the financial community digging deep into its pockets to prevent too much collateral damage.
It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Two techniques often used with liquid and solid biological samples include electrospray ionization ( invented by John Fenn ) and matrix-assisted laser desorption / ionization ( MALDI, initially developed as a similar technique " Soft Laser Desorption ( SLD )" by K. Tanaka for which a Nobel Prize was awarded and as MALDI by M. Karas and F. Hillenkamp ).
Nobel and dynamite
Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr ( diatomaceous earth ) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as ' dynamite '.
Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with various nitrocellulose compounds, similar to collodion, but settled on a more efficient recipe combining another nitrate explosive, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite.
* Ardeer ( in Stevenston, Ayrshire ): ICI Nobel used the site to manufacture dynamite and other explosives and nitrocellulose-based products.
Nobel amassed a fortune during his lifetime, with most of his wealth from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous.
* December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize ( b. 1833 )
Alfred Nobel is also quoted as when talking about his invention of dynamite that “ My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions.
It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will.
Nobel and 1867
Nobel obtained patents for his invention: in England on May 7, 1867 and in Sweden on October 19, 1867.
* 1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics ( b. 1867 )
* 1867 – Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry ( d. 1934 )
* January 9 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1867 )
* January 30 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1867 )
** Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics ( b. 1867 )
Emily Greene Balch ( January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961 ) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 ( the prize that year was shared with John Mott ), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF ).
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger ( April 23, 1867 Silkeborg – January 30, 1928 Copenhagen ) was a Danish scientist, physician, and professor of pathological anatomy who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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