Nobel

Nobel (phonetic: [nobél]) can mean:

• Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel

• The Nobel family:
  • Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, instituted the Nobel Prizes
  • Immanuel Nobel, (1801-1872), father of Ludvig and Alfred Nobel
  • Robert Nobel, (1829-1896), brother of Alfred Nobel, pioneer of the oil industry
  • Ludvig Nobel, (1831-1888), brother of Alfred Nobel, founder of Branobel and its first president
  • Emil Oskar Nobel, (1843-1864), brother of Alfred Nobel
  • Emanuel Nobel, (1859-1932), son of Ludvig Nobel and Branobel's second president
  • Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff, (1881-1973), daughter of Ludvig Nobel
  • Claes Nobel, great grandnephew of Alfred

• Nobel (company), a telecommunications company founded in 1998 by Thomas Knobel
• Branobel, or The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, an oil industry founded by Ludvig Nobel
• Nobelite, an employee of the Nobel family's companies
• Nobelium, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel
• Nobel Industries (Scotland), a UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel
• Nobel Industries (Sweden) - UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel, merged in 1994 with Akzo.
• Nobel Biocare, a bio-tech company, formerly a subsidiary of Nobel Industries
• Akzo Nobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994
• Nobel, Ontario, a village located in Ontario, Canada.
• Nobel (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
• Fuldamobil a German car, manufactured under license in the U.K. and Chile as the Nobel.
• The Nobel School, a Secondary School in Stevenage, England.
• The Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg)
• Nobel (typeface), a geometric, sans-serif typeface.

See also

• Noble (disambiguation)