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Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor

Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedes, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and Philanthropy, philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel ...

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AkzoNobel Akzo Nobel N.V., stylized as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational company which creates paints and performance coatings for both industry and consumers worldwide. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 80 countries, ...

, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994 *

Branobel The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, or Branobel (short for братьев Нобель "brat'yev Nobel" — "Nobel Brothers" in Russian), was an oil company set up by Ludvig Nobel and Baron Peter von Bilderling. It operated ...

, or The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, an oil industry cofounded by Ludvig and Robert Nobel *

Dynamit Nobel Dynamit Nobel AG is a German chemical and weapons company whose headquarters is in Troisdorf, Germany. It was founded in 1865 by Alfred Nobel. Creation After the death of his younger brother Emil in an 1864 nitroglycerin explosion at the famil ...

, a German chemical and weapons company founded in 1865 by Alfred Nobel *

Nobel Biocare Nobel Biocare is a company that manufactures dental implants and CAD/CAM-based individualized prosthetics and is headquartered in Kloten, Switzerland near the Zürich Airport. Nobel Biocare in its current form was founded in 2002. It originates in ...

, a bio-tech company, formerly a subsidiary of Nobel Industries *

Nobel Enterprises Nobel Enterprises () is a chemicals business that used to be based at Ardeer, in the Ayrshire town of Stevenston, in Scotland. Specialising in nitrogen-based propellants and explosives and nitrocellulose-based products such as varnishes and inks. ...

, a UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel *

NobelTel NobelTel, LLC is a wholesale telecom carrier division founded in 2003 by Thomas Knobel, a young entrepreneur from Switzerland. NobelTel operates a TDM/VoIP network and supplies minutes to international carriers, thus being the underlying carrier ...

, a telecommunications company founded in 1998 by Thomas Knobel

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Nobel (crater) Nobel is a crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the northern edge of the vast skirt of ejecta surrounding the Mare Orientale Mare Orientale (Latin ''orientāle'', the "eastern sea") is a lunar mare. It is located on ...

, a crater on the far side of the Moon. * Nobel, Ontario, a village located in Ontario, Canada. *

6032 Nobel 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

, a main-belt asteroid

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Nobel family The Nobel family ( , ) is a prominent Swedes, Swedish and Russians, Russian family closely related to the history both of Sweden and of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its legacy includes its outstanding contributions to philanthropy and ...

, a prominent Swedish and Russian family *

Nobel (automobile) The Nobel was a microcar built under licence from Elektromaschinenbau Fulda GmbH by York Noble Industries Ltd, between 1958 and 1962. Background Born in Vienna on August 17, 1922, Jakob Knoblauch, was credited in at least one publication as th ...

a licence-built version of the German Fuldamobil, manufactured in the UK and Chile * ''Nobel'' (TV series), a Norwegian television series about the country's military involvement in Afghanistan *

Nobel (typeface) Nobel is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Sjoerd Henrik de Roos (1877–1962) and Dick Dooijes (1909–1998) in the period 1929–1935 for the Amsterdam Type foundry). Capitalizing upon Lettergieterij Amsterdam's substantial financial ...

, a geometric, sans-serif typeface. *

Nobel Charitable Trust The Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST) is a charity set up by some members of the Swedish Nobel family, i.e. descendants of Ludvig Nobel. Its founders are Michael Nobel, Gustaf Nobel Gustaf Nobel ( , ; born 1950 in Stockholm) is a Swedish business ...

(NCT), a charity established by some descendants of Ludvig Nobel's *

Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg) The Nobel Ice Egg ( ), sometimes also referred to as the Snowflake egg, is a jewelled Fabergé egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé for the Swedish-Russian oil baron and industrialist Emanuel Nobel between 19 ...

, also referred to as the Snowflake egg *

Nobelite Nobelite was the common designation of the tens of thousands of employees of the companies owned by the Nobel family in Russia during the 19th century and until the Russian Revolution, such as Branobel and the Machine-Building Factory Ludvig Nobel. ...

, an employee of the Nobel family's companies * Nobelium, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel * The Nobel School, a secondary school in Stevenage, England.

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