Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a famous inventor, engineer and chemist and founder of the Nobel Prize
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Alfred Nobel was also known as “The merchant of death” because he made his fortune through explosives, which were also used for warfare.
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Numerous things were named after this great American inventor including the synthetic chemical element Nobelium, the Nobel Prize and the German chemical and weapons company Dynamite Nobel AG.
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Alfred Nobel was born into a poor family. He had seven siblings of which only three survived childhood due to lack of money and poor surroundings. The three remaining siblings were all boys.
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His brother, Emil, was killed in 1864 during a factory explosion in Heleneborg, Stockholm. Five people lost their lives in total. Nobel focused his efforts on developing the stability of explosives. His research resulted in the invention of a substance which was safer to handle than nitroglycerin, it was called dynamite.
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Nobel was only in his twenties when he filed for his first of 350 known patents, this one for a gas meter. This is a special point through Nobel inventions life.
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Nobel established 90 armaments factories by the time of his death. He owned Bofors and was the founder of the chemical and weapons company Dynamit Nobel.
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There is a fact that Alfred Nobel never married during his lifetime although he proposed to a Russian girl called Alexandra but sadly, she rejected his proposal. There were at least three loves in his life.
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He was very good at languages and could speak six languages in total; Swedish, English, French, German, Italian and Russian.
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Alfred Nobel died on December 10th, 1896 in Italy. He had suffered from angina and his death was caused by a cerebral haemorrhage. Alfred Nobel was 63 years old when he died.
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