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Alfred Nobel

Type: Person

Name: Alfred Nobel (Alfred Bernhard Nobel)

Title: Inventor (deceased)

Date of Birth: 21/10/1833-10/12/1896

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Nationality: Sweden

Fact Sheet: Biography for Alfred Nobel

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 1 Documents

The Student of Working Together

Who owns the Nobel Prize in economics? A basis for an answer to that question appeared last week, when the Nobel Committee opened the door to a capacious new wing of economic research, citing political scientist Elinor Ostrom, of Indiana University, for ... [EconomicPrincipals.com - 10/30/2009]

Entities: Elinor Ostrom, Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, George Mason University, Alfred Nobel

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Climate, Nuclear Disarmament

(ENS) - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.' The Committee attached ... [Environment News Service - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Disarmament, Climate

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

Nobel Peace Prize: Why Obama?

Were awarding President Obama for his extraordinary efforts in order to strengthen dialogue in the world, to resolve conflict by negotiations and through the international bodies that we have for that purpose& We would like to enhance, to support what ... [Daily Sun - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Barack Obama

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents

WSJ(11/13) U.K. Investigates Hedge-Fund Group

LONDON -- The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office said it has opened an investigation into hedge-fund manager Dynamic Decisions Capital Management Ltd., underscoring the agency's increased focus on hedge-funds.The SFO said Thursday that the investigation followed ... [Morningstar UK - 11/12/2009]

Entities: Hedge Fund, Alfred Nobel, Liquidation, Financial Services Authority

First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/13/2009 - 66 Documents

US researcher Elinor Ostrom. Photo: Getty Images

US researcher Elinor Ostrom (left) is the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics since it was created in 1968. She will share the prestigious award with US compatriot Oliver Williamson (left).The jury from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ... [Irish Independent - 10/13/2009]

Entities: Elinor Ostrom, Oliver Williamson, Alfred Nobel

First Reported 10/14/2009 - Updated 10/14/2009 - 6 Documents

Thorbjørn Jagland

Nobel academy defends picking Obama for prize

OSLO: One judge noted with surprise that American president Barack Obama didnt look particularly happy at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing.In a rare public defense of a process normally ... [Times of India - 10/14/2009]

Entities: Alfred Nobel, Thorbjørn Jagland, Barack Obama, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn

First Reported 10/09/2009 - Updated 10/10/2009 - 11 Documents (in Politics)

Henry Kissinger

The Nobel War Prize

Fridays announcement by the Nobel committee in Norway that Barack Obama had been chosen to receive its 2009 Peace Prize was met with expressions of astonishment around the globe.Many questioned how Obama could be chosen after less than ten months in office, ... [World Socialist Web Site - 10/10/2009]

Entities: Alfred Nobel, Afghanistan, Henry Kissinger

First Reported 10/14/2009 - Updated 10/14/2009 - 4 Documents

Mark Axelrod: The Nobel Peace Prize; or Pissing on the Prose of Alfred B Nobel

When all else fails, read. Apparently, such Nobel pundits as Rush Limbaugh, Liz Cheney, and Glenn Beck don't really need to do that since it's much easier to fabricate the truth than to search for it, so I'm here to help them out. The Nobel ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/14/2009]

Entities: Alfred Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Glenn Beck, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Storting

First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/13/2009 - 4 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Obama’s Peace Prize — Political Posturing?

Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the 1904 Russo-Japanese war, in which 130,000 people died. Woodrow Wilson was similarly rewarded for his role in founding the League of Nations ... [Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 10/13/2009]

Entities: Nobel Peace Prize, Disarmament, Alfred Nobel, Theodore Roosevelt, Barack Obama

First Reported 10/16/2009 - Updated 10/16/2009 - 4 Documents

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Hope in the face of uncertainty

Peace is undoubtedly fundamental to every living person, and vital to the pursuit of human happiness. It was probably in recognition that peace is fundamental to the pursuit of happiness, that prompted Alfred Nobel to come up with the idea of rewarding ... [New Era - 10/16/2009]

Entities: Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Nuclear Weapon

First Reported 10/04/2009 - Updated 10/05/2009 - 3 Documents (in Biology)

Nobel prize for chromosome research

STOCKHOLM: Three American scientists won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how chromosomes are copied and protected against degradation, the prize awarding institute said today.Australian-born Elizabeth Blackburn, British-born ... [The Star South Africa - 10/05/2009]

Entities: Chromosome, Nobel Prize, Degradation, Carol Greider, Elizabeth Blackburn

First Reported 10/06/2009 - Updated 10/06/2009 - 3 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Optic fibre, CCD inventors bag Noble

STOCKHOLM: Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize for pioneering 'masters of light' work on fiber optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.The Hong Kong-based expert Kao and his two American counterparts were ... [Times of India - 10/06/2009]

Entities: Alfred Nobel, George Smith, Nobel Prize, Toshihide Maskawa, Makoto Kobayashi

Quotes

In his will, Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel said the Peace Prize is meant to 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." Yet, at the time, the only bridge building Obama had done with other countries is to take tens of millions of taxpayer funds and give them to abortion...

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DISAGREE WITH NOBEL PRIZE FOR PRO-ABORTION BARACK OBAMA [LifeNews.com - 10/22/2009]

Actually, the Nobel Peace Committee justified its choice of Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor who bequeathed the prizes, said in his will that the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person...

Obama: Time to Step Into the Ring [Palestine Chronicle - 10/17/2009]

...In justifying their decision, the Nobel committee said, "we trust that this award will strengthen [obama's] commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty."

Africa: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: For What? [AllAfrica.com - 10/17/2009]

In his instructions for the prizes bearing his name, Alfred Nobel said awards in five categories would be distributed "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."

EDITORIAL: Nobel laureate's roots go deep at Indiana University [Individual.com - 10/14/2009]

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Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels [RSC - 10/29/2009]
Coase vs. the Neo-Progressives [American.com - 10/28/2009]
Douglass North Speaks Out on 2009 Nobel Prize i... [USAgNet - 10/28/2009]
US duo wins Nobel Economics Prize, first woman ... [Monday Morning - 10/25/2009]
Denmark, Schmenmark [Miami Herald - 10/25/2009]
Economics Might Be Literature, But It's Not A S... [Chronicle of Higher Education - 10/24/2009]
I am pissed about these peace prizey thingies! [Mid Day - 10/24/2009]
Obama's Nobel Test [Khaleej Times - 10/23/2009]
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DISAGREE WITH NOBEL PRIZE... [LifeNews.com - 10/22/2009]
Accepting Nobel is unconstitutional [Detroit News - 10/22/2009]
Obama's day: Jobs, Afghanistan, and campaigning [USA Today - 10/21/2009]
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - Hope in the Face of... [Individual.com - 10/21/2009]
California Biotechnology Foundation launches ne... [News-Medical.Net - 10/21/2009]
New Biotechnology Website and Workforce Directo... [Business Wire - 10/21/2009]
UMAPAGAN AMPIKAIPAKAN It's a recognition of the... [New Straits Times - 10/20/2009]
Nobel Prize Unconstitutional? [AARP Bulletin Today - 10/20/2009]
Governance and the Nobel Prize [Manila Times - 10/20/2009]
Energy and Environmental Industry Expert Joins ... [Market Wire via MSN Money - 10/19/2009]

Blogs

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America Deserves ‘Nobel War Prize’: Thawra Al W... [The Moderate Voice - 10/20/2009] Continuing with our look at Obama’s Nobel Prize through a global prism, this article from Syria’s state-controlled Thawra Al Wada shares the rest of the world’s ...
Hamdan Azhar: In the Name of Hope: Perpetual Wa... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/19/2009] Last Friday, our nation was confronted with the reality that President Barack "Hope" Obama had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize - and the 1984 references ...
Mark Axelrod: The Nobel Peace Prize; or Pissing... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/14/2009] When all else fails, read. Apparently, such Nobel pundits as Rush Limbaugh, Liz Cheney, and Glenn Beck don't really need to do that since it's much easier ...
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr.: Mr. Obama's Prize [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/13/2009] Once upon a time, not so long ago, and in a land right here, election to the Presidency of the United States of America was a big deal. But no longer. ...
Susanna Speier: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Politiku [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/13/2009] The Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to grant Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has not gone over well with the Taliban, Hezbollah or with Jamaat-eI-Islami, ...

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