Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes

by Prof. Bjorn Jonson (Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology)

Wednesday 10 Apr 2013, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite. Nobel held 350 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. He used his fortune to posthumously institute the Nobel Prizes.

I shall start my talk by speaking about the person Alfred Nobel, his life and his achievements that gave him the immense fortune that created the basis for the Nobel Prizes. Then I shall turn to the work of the Nobel Committees and in particular the work of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

(B. Jonson is Professor of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. He was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics 2006-2012 and acted as its Chairperson in 2012.)

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