US President Donald Trump seeking Nobel Peace Prize for himself may certainly sound ironic. There is great irony behind the establishment of the Nobel Prize itself. Alfred Nobel, a chemical engineer ...

- Nobel hoped that the destructiveness of dynamite, the 1866 invention that made him rich, would help bring an end to war. - He was friends with a well-known peace campaigner, Bertha von Suttner. Some ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Swedish businessman and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, in his will signed in 1895, set up a number of prizes awarded each year that have become some of the most prestigious in the ...