Nobel often refers to:
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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." Alfre ...
, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he al ...
Nobel may also refer to:
Companies
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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
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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
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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 fami ...
, a German chemical and weapons company founded in 1865 by Alfred Nobel
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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
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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
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NobelTel, a telecommunications company founded in 1998 by Thomas Knobel
Geography
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Nobel (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon.
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Nobel, Ontario
Nobel is a village on the shores of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. It is in the Municipality of McDougall in the District of Parry Sound. The community is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
This village is the administrative ...
, a village located in Ontario, Canada.
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6032 Nobel, a main-belt asteroid
Other uses
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Nobel family
The Nobel family ( , ) is a prominent Swedish and 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 to the developme ...
, a prominent Swedish and Russian family
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Nobel (automobile) a licence-built version of the German Fuldamobil, manufactured in the UK and Chile
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''Nobel'' (TV series), a Norwegian television series about the country's military involvement in Afghanistan
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Nobel (typeface), a geometric, sans-serif typeface.
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Nobel Charitable Trust (NCT), a charity established by some descendants of Ludvig Nobel's
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Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg), also referred to as the Snowflake egg
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Nobelite, an employee of the Nobel family's companies
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Nobelium
Nobelium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol No and atomic number 102. It is named in honor of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and benefactor of science. A radioactive metal, it is the tenth transuranic element and is the penul ...
, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel
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The Nobel School, a secondary school in Stevenage, England.
See also
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Noble (disambiguation)
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