There are few biographical contradictions as clean or as consequential as Alfred Nobel's. The man who invented dynamite, held over 350 patents, and built a fortune supplying explosives to armies ...
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 ...
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...