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The Nobel Foundation is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. The Foundation is based on the last will of Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel

was a Sweden chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill....
, the inventor of dynamite
Dynamite

Dynamite is an Explosive material based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth or another absorbent substance such as sawdust as an adsorbent....
. It also holds Nobel Symposia on important breakthroughs in science and topics of cultural or social significance.

Nobel Symposia
In 1965, the Foundation initiated the Nobel Symposia, a program that holds symposia "devoted to areas of science where breakthroughs are occurring or deal with other topics of primary cultural or social significance." The symposia has covered topics such as prostaglandin
Prostaglandin

A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body....
s, chemical kinetics
Chemical kinetics

Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the study of reaction rate of chemical processes. Chemical kinetics includes investigations of how different experimental conditions can influence the speed of a chemical reaction and yield information about the reaction mechanism and transition states, as well as the construction of ma...
, diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus , often referred to simply as diabetes , is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of genetic disorder and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels ....
, string theory
String theory

String theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum gravity. The String s of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces too....
, cosmology
Cosmology

Cosmology is study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent , study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion....
, and the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 in the 1980s.






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The Nobel Foundation is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. The Foundation is based on the last will of Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel

was a Sweden chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill....
, the inventor of dynamite
Dynamite

Dynamite is an Explosive material based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth or another absorbent substance such as sawdust as an adsorbent....
. It also holds Nobel Symposia on important breakthroughs in science and topics of cultural or social significance.

Nobel Symposia


In 1965, the Foundation initiated the Nobel Symposia, a program that holds symposia "devoted to areas of science where breakthroughs are occurring or deal with other topics of primary cultural or social significance." The symposia has covered topics such as prostaglandin
Prostaglandin

A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body....
s, chemical kinetics
Chemical kinetics

Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the study of reaction rate of chemical processes. Chemical kinetics includes investigations of how different experimental conditions can influence the speed of a chemical reaction and yield information about the reaction mechanism and transition states, as well as the construction of ma...
, diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus , often referred to simply as diabetes , is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of genetic disorder and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels ....
, string theory
String theory

String theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum gravity. The String s of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces too....
, cosmology
Cosmology

Cosmology is study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent , study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion....
, and the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 in the 1980s. The Nobel Symposium Committee consists of members from the Nobel Committees in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine; the Prize Committee for Economics; the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation awards grants to individuals and research groups for research projects in science, the humanities, social sciences, medial research, technology, and law....
; and the Wallenberg Foundation.

Michael Nobel Energy Award


In 2007 Dr. Michael Nobel, a great grand nephew of Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel

was a Sweden chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill....
, attempted to start a prize called the Michael Nobel Energy Award that would award innovations in alternative energy technology. The plan was announced at nanoTX 07. The Nobel Foundation quickly reacted by threatening legal action for infringement of their trademark.The Director, Michael Sohlman, of the Nobel Foundation and the elected Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Family Society disapproved to the institution of the so called 'Dr. Michael Nobel Award' as well as the Nobel Charitable Trust and Nobel Family Benevolent society.

See also

  • Lars Ernster
    Lars Ernster

    Lars Ernster was a professor of biochemistry, and a member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation...
     (1920-1998) – a professor of biochemistry and a former member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
  • Ragnar Sohlman
    Ragnar Sohlman

    Ragnar Sohlman, born February 26, 1870 in Stockholm, dead July 9, 1948 at the Karolinska hospital, Solna Municipality, was a Sweden chemical engineer, Management, civil servant, and creator of the Nobel Foundation....
  • List of wealthiest foundations
    List of wealthiest foundations

    This is a list of wealthiest charitable foundations and consists of the 25 largest Foundation , private foundations and other charitable organizations....
  • Nobel Conference
    Nobel Conference

    The Nobel Conference is the first ongoing academic conference in the United States of America to have the official authorization of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden....


External links

  • – Official site of the "2007 Nobel Conference" at Gustavus Adolphus College
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    Gustavus Adolphus College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in St. Peter, Minnesota, United States....
    , Saint Peter, Minnesota. Accessed October 28, 2007.
  • – Official site of the Nobel Foundation.
  • – Official webpage of the Nobel Foundation.
  • – Official webpage of the Nobel Foundation; quotes a pertinent excerpt.