Articles by: Ulrika Royen
Alfred Nobel’s Private Library – Biographies and Memoirs
Humanities Biographies and Memoirs Name First name Title, subtitle etc. Place of publ. Year Publisher Adelsköld Claes Adolf John Ericsson. Biografiska teckningar. Sthlm 1894 P. A. Norstedt Geer Louis de Minnen. Bd 1-2. Sthlm 1892 Norstedt Hanotaux Gabriel Histoire du cardinal de Richelieu. T. 1-2. 2e éd. Paris 1896 Firmin-Didot Hensel S. von Die…
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Alfred Nobel’s Private Library – Electricity and Electrotechnology
Sciences Electricity and Electrotechnology Name First name Title, subtitle etc. Place of publ. Year Publisher Ayrton W. E. Practical electricity. A laboratory and lecture course. Ill. 6th ed. London 1891 Cassell & Co Borchers W. Elektro-Metallurgie. Die Gewinnung der Metalle unter Vermittlung des elektrischen Stromes. 2:te verm. und völl. umgearb. Aufl. Ill. Braunschweig 1896…
moreAlfred Nobel’s thoughts about war and peace
by Sven Tägil When Alfred Nobel’s will was made known after his death in San Remo on 10 December 1896, and when it was disclosed that he had established a special peace prize, this immediately created a great international sensation. The name Nobel was connected with explosives and with inventions useful to the art of…
moreAlfred Nobel’s house in Paris
by Birgitta Lemmel Between 1865 and 1873 Alfred Nobel’s home, laboratory, and the focal point of his business were in Hamburg. In 1873 he left Hamburg and moved to Paris. He had always had a great liking for Paris, which was the lively center of international business and had all cultural activities that he had…
moreAlfred Nobel in Sevran
by Birgitta Lemmel In 1873 Alfred Nobel settled in Paris and bought a magnificent house on He had a small laboratory in the yard, where he worked together with the young French chemist Georges D. Fehrenbach, who was to become Nobel’s faithful and trustworthy assistant behind the scenes during the nearly two decades that the…
moreImmanuel Nobel
(1801-1872) Immanuel Nobel Father of Alfred Nobel. Self-taught inventor and building contractor in Stockholm. Immanuel Nobel grew up in a poor family who could not afford any formal education. His father taught him how to read and write. At the age of 14 he became a sailor. Exactly what Immanuel did after his return to…
moreAlfred Nobel in Krümmel
by Birgitta Lemmel In 1865, soon after production at his very first company – outside Stockholm – had got started, Alfred Nobel left Sweden for Hamburg with the aim of creating a company for the production of blasting oil (the brand name for ) in Europe. He had been encouraged to set up business in…
moreAlfred Nobel in Scotland
by John E. Dolan Unlike most inventors Alfred Nobel combined technical creativity with commercial flair, both to a very high degree. A lack of capital proved no hindrance to Nobel and having borrowed it he had, within ten years, founded an international group of dynamite companies in Sweden, Finland, Germany and Norway before turning his…
moreHälsningsanförande – 2009
Swedish Tal av Dr Marcus Storch, Nobelstiftelsens styrelseordförande, den 10 december 2009. Dr Marcus Storch håller sitt hälsningsanförande Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, På Nobelstiftelsens vägnar ber jag att få hälsa er välkomna till årets prisutdelning, och jag vill särskilt hälsa pristagarna och deras familjer välkomna till…
moreOpening address – 1999
Speech by Professor , Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Nobel Foundation Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, I welcome you to the 1999 Prize Award Ceremony. I would especially like to welcome this year’s laureates and their families to the Nobel festivities in Stockholm. I…
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