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| | Nobel, Alfred Bernhard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Manufacture of a mixture of nitroglycerine and gunpowder, developed cooperatively by the family, was begun in the small Nobel works in Heleneborg, near Stockholm, in 1863. |
 | | Nobel, who inclined toward pacifism, had long had reservations about his familys industry, and he developed strong misgivings about the potential uses of his own invention. |
 | | On his death in San Remo, Italy, he left a fund from the interest of which annual awards, called Nobel Prizes, were to be given for work in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, and toward the promotion of international peace. |
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