The 10-volume Nobel Prize--Science series--featuring selected winners who represent important advances--is inaugurated, appropriately, with this entry on the prize's founder: inventor, chemist, and engineer Alfred Nobel, who wanted to create a stable “blasting oil” for civil engineering purposes. After many experiments (including a tragic one that killed his brother Emil), Nobel successfully combined the powerful but unstable nitroglycerine with diatomaceous earth (diatomite) to create the relatively “safe” dynamite in 1867. Distressed by the subsequent military use of his invention, and influenced by a female friend, the childless bachelor willed that the proceeds of his considerable estate should be used for annual prizes recognizing those who "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" in the areas of peace, medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature. First awarded in 1901, the prizes would gain a sixth category--economics--in 1969. An interesting look at an important historical figure, the program is accompanied by Paula Bense's well done teacher's guide (also available online). Recommended. Other titles in the series include: Blood Research, Immunology, Origin of the Universe, Radioactivity and Superconductors. Aud: H, C, P. (R. Reagan)
The Nobel Prize--Science: Nobel--The Man
(2001) 10 min. $19.95 (teacher’s guide included). York Films of England/Schlessinger Media (dist. by Library Video Company). PPR. Color cover. Closed captioned. ISBN: 1-57225-503-X. Volume 17, Issue 5
The Nobel Prize--Science: Nobel--The Man
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