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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm,

Sweden on October 21, 1833.

Childhood
His brothers were Emil Robert and Ludvig. His parents were

Immanuel Nobel, inventor and engineer, and Andriette

Ahisell. The same year Alfred was born his father went
bankrupt. In 1837 his father started a new business in St.
Petersburg, Russia. While her Immanuel was away, Alfred's
mom operated a grocery store and made enough money to
help support the kids.

Education
In 1842 Alfred moved to St. Petersburg.

There he got a private education.

At age 17 he could speak Swedish, French,
English, and German.
His father made him go to Sweden, France,
Germany, and the United States to further
his education.

Adulthood
Alfred started to work with nitroglycerine, a highly

explosive and unpredictable substance.

He wanted to make a safer way to use it.
In 1847 one of Alfred's factories blew up, and his
brother Emil died.
Alfred had to move his experiments to a barge on Lake
Malaren.

Personal Life
Through baptism and confirmation Alfred Nobel was Lutheran and

during his Paris years he regularly attended the Church of Sweden

Abroad led by pastor Nathan Sderblom who would in 1930 also be
the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel travelled for much of his business life, maintaining companies
in various countries in Europe and North America and keeping a
permanent home in Paris from 1873 to 1891. He remained a solitary
character, given to periods of depression. Though Nobel remained
unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.
Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who
rejected his proposal. In 1876 Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha
Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary. But after only a brief stay
she left him to marry her previous lover, Baron Arthur Gundaccar
von Suttner. Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had
been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896,

Invention
Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in

an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr

(diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more
convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in
1867 as 'dynamite'. Nobel demonstrated his explosive for
the first time that year, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey,
England. In order to help reestablish his name and
improve the image of his business from the earlier
controversies associated with the dangerous explosives,
Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful
substance "Nobel's Safety Powder", but settled with
Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for 'power'

Dynamite
Alfred mixed nitroglycerine with kiselguhr and

made a moldable paste.

He molded the paste into cylinders that could fit
into drilled holes in the mine.
In 1867 he patented it as dynamite.
Alfred also invented the blasting cap; these two
inventions made him famous.

Nobel Prizes
On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club

in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and

set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel
Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of
nationality. After taxes and bequests to individuals,
Nobel's will allocated 94% of his total assets,
31,225,000 Swedish kronor, to establish the five Nobel
Prizes. This converted to 1,687,837 (GBP) at the time.
In 2012, the capital was worth around SEK 3.1 billion
(USD 472 million, EUR 337 million), which is almost
twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation
into account.

Death
Before his death, Alfred wrote a will

inspired by one of his friends, Bertha Von

Suttner. She inspired him to create the
Nobel Foundation. Which gives monetary
prize for people who promoted peace,
chemistry, physics, medicine, and
literature.
Alfred died at San Remo, Italy, December
10, 1896.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world

conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole
armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden
peace.
Alfred Nobel

Monuments
The Monument to Alfred Nobel in Saint

Petersburg is located along the Bolshaya

Nevka River on Petrogradskaya Embankment.
It was dedicated in 1991 to mark the 90th
anniversary of the first Nobel Prize
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Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

http://nobelprize.com/alfred_nobel/biograph

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