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1833–1896
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel · 瑞典
19th-century Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor, founder of the Nobel Prizes (1833–1896).
Born in Stockholm, he moved with his family to Saint Petersburg as a boy and later studied chemistry in Paris, the United States, and elsewhere; in 1867 he invented the safe explosive "dynamite", a mixture of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr, held more than 350 patents in his lifetime, and set up factories in more than 20 countries; in 1895 he made a will establishing a fund from most of his fortune to reward those who had made the greatest contribution to humanity, and the Nobel Prizes have been awarded from 1901.
People & stories
Places in their life
Birthplace and burial place Stockholm (buried in Norra begravningsplatsen); later residences Björkborn Manor in Karlskoga and a villa in San Remo, Italy.
People
Cultural significance
A dual legacy of the industrialisation of explosives and the Nobel Prize system; the Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, the other prizes in Stockholm.