Nitro Nobel Gold Medal
Encyclopedia
The Nitro Nobel Gold Medal is an explosives industry award given by the Nitro Nobel Company of Sweden
(now part of Dyno Nobel
). The medal is gold, and features the same obverse as the Nobel Prize
, but a different reverse. The medal has sometimes been confused with the Nobel Prize, with which it shares some history.
The award has only been given three times since its founding in 1967. The recipients are:
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
(now part of Dyno Nobel
Dyno Nobel
Dyno Nobel is a major manufacturer of explosives. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Incitec Pivot Limited, and its customers include users in the mining, quarry, construction, pipeline and geophysical exploration industries...
). The medal is gold, and features the same obverse as the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, but a different reverse. The medal has sometimes been confused with the Nobel Prize, with which it shares some history.
The award has only been given three times since its founding in 1967. The recipients are:
- 1967 — Dr. Robert W. Van Dolah, for the development of a theory he developed to explain the accidental initiation of liquid explosives http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nas/mining/whatis-history.htm
- 1968 — Dr. Melvin A. CookMelvin A. CookMelvin Alonzo Cook was a noted American chemist. He was most known from his work in the research and development of explosives, including the development of shaped charges and slurry explosives...
, for the discovery of slurry explosives http://www.kronia.com/thoth/thoth03.txt - 1990 — Dr. Per-Anders Persson http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DD1638F936A35750C0A966958260 for the invention of the Nonel fuze.