Imagine being woken up at dawn by a phone call telling you you've just won the world's most famous prize. Every October, the world turns its attention to a set of announcements that can change lives ...

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. My wife and I share Swedish ancestry, so we knew from the time we were young that the Nobel Peace Prize is ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week. The awards are considered among the world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, ...

English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army 1906-Advertisement for Nobel's Dynamite in the German newspaper ...

Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite was a terrifying new addition to mankind growing arsenal of destruction. Ironically, it also spawned the Nobel Peace Prize. From ...