Nobel

Nobel (phonetic: ) can mean:

  • Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel
  • The Nobel family:
    • Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, instituted the Nobel Prizes
    • Immanuel Nobel, (1801-1872), father of Ludvig and Alfred Nobel
    • Robert Nobel, (1829-1896), brother of Alfred Nobel, pioneer of the oil industry
    • Ludvig Nobel, (1831-1888), brother of Alfred Nobel, founder of Branobel and its first president
    • Emil Oskar Nobel, (1843-1864), brother of Alfred Nobel
    • Emanuel Nobel, (1859-1932), son of Ludvig Nobel and Branobel's second president
    • Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff, (1881-1973), daughter of Ludvig Nobel
    • Claes Nobel, great grandnephew of Alfred
  • Nobel (company), a telecommunications company founded in 1998 by Thomas Knobel
  • Branobel, or The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, an oil industry founded by Ludvig Nobel
  • Nobelite, an employee of the Nobel family's companies
  • Nobelium, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel
  • Nobel Industries (Scotland), a UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel
  • Nobel Industries (Sweden) - UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel, merged in 1994 with Akzo.
  • Nobel Biocare, a bio-tech company, formerly a subsidiary of Nobel Industries
  • Akzo Nobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994
  • Nobel, Ontario, a village located in Ontario, Canada.
  • Nobel (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
  • Fuldamobil a German car, manufactured under license in the U.K. and Chile as the Nobel.
  • The Nobel School, a Secondary School in Stevenage, England.
  • The Nobel Ice (FabergĂ© egg)
  • Nobel (typeface), a geometric, sans-serif typeface.

Famous quotes containing the word nobel:

    Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.
    Frank Pittman (20th century)