Nitro Nobel Gold Medal Explained

The Nitro Nobel Gold Medal is an explosives industry award given by the Nitro Nobel Company of Sweden (now part of Dyno Nobel).^[1]

The medal is gold, and features the same obverse as the Nobel Prize, but a different reverse. The medal has sometimes been confused with the Nobel Prize.

The award has only been given three times since its creation in 1967. The recipients are:

• 1967 - Dr. Robert W. Van Dolah, for the development of a theory he developed to explain the accidental initiation of liquid explosives^[2]
• 1968 - Dr. Melvin A. Cook, for the discovery of slurry explosives^[3]
• 1990 - Dr. Per-Anders Persson for the invention of the Nonel fuze.^[1]

See also

• List of engineering awards

Notes and References

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/05/us/chronicle-102090.html New York Times, 1990-03-05
2. Web site: Developing Safer Explosives . January 28, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061203064619/http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nas/mining/whatis-history.htm . December 3, 2006 .
3. Web site: Age Limits Of The Earth's Biosphere . January 28, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061031105718/http://www.kronia.com/thoth/thoth03.txt . October 31, 2006 .