Definition of Alfred Nobel

1. Noun. Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896).

Exact synonyms: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Nobel
Generic synonyms: Chemist, Altruist, Philanthropist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alfred Nobel

Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
Alfred Hawthorne
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Alfred Kastler
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Kroeber
Alfred Krupp
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Louis Kroeber
Alfred Lunt
Alfred Nobel (current term)
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Wallace
Alfred de Musset
Alfred the Great
Alfreda
Alfredo
Alfven ion cyclotron instability
Alfven velocity
Alfven waves

Literary usage of Alfred Nobel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Societyby American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1902)
"The following program was presented : "The British Municipal Laboratories," by HW Wiley; " Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes," by CE Munroe ; "Experience ..."

2. The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum by Charles Thomas Marvin (1891)
"... and of Dynamite by Alfred Nobel—How Ludwig Nobel Acquired the Fortune with which he Started Operations in Petroleum—Commencement of the Enterprise at ..."

3. Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life by Bertha von Suttner (1910)
"Alfred Nobel came to meet us at the railway station and conducted us to the drawing-room prepared for us, and there, a half hour later, he joined us at ..."

4. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"Alfred Nobel. He was made a noble with hereditary transmission of the title in 1885. His great work in synthetic chemistry entitles him to belong to the ..."

5. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Benjamin Vincent, Joseph Haydn (1906)
"Alfred Nobel, n Swede, t attempted its application as an explosive agent 1864. It has caused several most disastrous a< dents, with great loss of life. ..."

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