Peter Nobel ( , ; born 1931) is a Swedish

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lawyer and a member of the

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, who served as Sweden's first

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for

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(1986–1991), Secretary General of the Swedish

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(1991–94), and an expert for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1998–2001). Nobel is a great-grandson of the industrialist and humanitarian

Ludvig Nobel Ludvig Immanuel Nobel ( ; ; ; 27 July 1831 – 12 April 1888) was a Swedish-Russian engineer, a noted businessman and a humanitarian. One of the most prominent members of the Nobel family, he was the son of Immanuel Nobel (also an engineering pi ...

, the founder of

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 operat ...

. Like several other members of his family, among them Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff, he is a fierce critic of the

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (), commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics(), is an award in the field of economic sciences adminis ...

, and what he and his family see as misuse of their family name by the awarding institution. He argues that no member of the Nobel family has ever had the intention of creating an award in economics."Alfred Nobels familie tar avstand fra økonomiprisen"
''Aftenpost'', 25 November 2001 (Retrieved 7 July 2013)

Recognitions

*Honorary doctorate in law,

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*Honorary member of Stockholms nation

Publications

*Peter Nobel (2004). ''I idealisk riktning - Mitt liv''. Atlantis

References

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20th-century Swedish lawyers Red Cross personnel 1931 births Living people