The Weekend Playlist: Foyle's Cold War, A Second Look at Orphan Black. Sep 13, 2013 8:51 AM EDT. One war makes way for another as the incredibly durable Foyle's War, in its seventh Masterpiece Mystery! season on PBS, transitions from post-World War II intrigues to the ethically murky spy games of a burgeoning Cold War. I haven't got the requisiâ¦ Read more.
Alfred Nobel, in full Alfred Bernhard Nobel (born October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Swedenâdied December 10, 1896, San Remo, Italy), Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite, left more than 9 million dollars of his fortune to found the Nobel Prizes. Under his will, signed in 1895, the income from this fund was to be distributed yearly in five equal parts as prizes to those who had most helped humankind.