(He was nominated for, but didn't win, the Nobel Peace Prize... the same goes for Joseph Djugashvili.  Ooh!  The spell check doesn't like 'Djugashvili' and wants to change it to 'Nashville' -- now there's a thing!)

The Leicester Mercury is a long running evening paper.  I used to live in Leicester.

I don't know whether university rags still take place.  I haven't seen any sign of one for years.  They used to comprise a series of things that students wished to do anyway (a parade, a dance, a magazine filled with jokes, etc.) presented as charity fund raising.

And indeed, Alfred Nobel invented dynamite -- and made a lot of money from it (which is not always the case with inventors).  It's difficult to make informed criticism of the science prizes because few of us have sufficient grasp of science, or the literature prize awarded for books few of us have read.  The peace prize is another matter.