You probably know the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel as the founder of the Nobel Prize and the inventor of dynamite, but he created even more than that over his lifetime, with 355 patents in his name by ...

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Imagine being woken up at dawn by a phone call telling you you've just won the world's most famous prize. Every October, the world turns its attention to a set of announcements that can change lives ...

On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mah-SKOH’-nee) and city supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk were fatally shot inside City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Also on ...

Alfred Nobel, the inventor, industrialist, and founder of the famous Nobel Prizes, lived for a time in Sevran, in Seine-Saint-Denis. In the 1880s, he established a laboratory there and worked on ...