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 Alfred Nobel
Alfred was the third son of Emmanuel Nobel[?] (1801-1872), born at Stockholm, but, at an early age he went with his family to St.
In 1859 this was left to the care of the second son, Ludvig Emmanuel[?] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Sweden with his father, devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the manufacture and use of nitroglycerin.
Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated with an absorbent, inert substance like kieselguhr[?] it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.
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 Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833.
Alfred Nobel was accused of being the “salesman of death”, even though 90 percent of dynamite use was for non-violent purposes.
She and Nobel remained friends for the rest of his life and Baroness Bertha von Sutt-ner, who was a pioneer in the peace movement and author of Down with Weapons was later (in 1905) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for which she probably was the original source of inspiration.
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 Alfred Nobel information - Search.com
Alfred Nobel, a descendant of the 17th century scientist, Olaus Rudbeck (1630-1702), was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872).
Alfred Nobel is buried in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
A common legend states that Nobel decided against a prize in mathematics because a woman - said to be either his fiancé, wife, or mistress - rejected him for or cheated on him with a famous mathematician, often claimed to be Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
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 Alfred Nobel | Swedish Industrialist
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born October 21, 1833 in Stockholm Sweden.
Nobel was interested in literature and wrote novels, poetry and plays in his spare time.
The Alfred Nobel Story explores the tragedy, redemption and triumph of this enigmatic figure as told through the eyes of Bertha von Suttner, one of the first recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 The Norwegian Nobel Institute- Alfred Nobel, biography
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 21 October 1833.
Nobel took a keen interest in social questions, and is known to have held radical views on many contemporary problems.
Alfred Nobel was a lonely man and was often in poor health.
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 Life and Philosophy of Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was lonely and he was clearly unlucky in love, but such accounts are not so instructive.
Nobel could have completed this train of thought with Humboldt's words that "from observation one goes on to experimentation....based on analogies and inductions of empirical laws." Nobel did not espouse any grand theory of knowledge, but rather an empirical method.
Alfred Nobel himself seemed to think that he had accomplished quite a lot by applying this method in his work.
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 Alfred Nobel - MSN Encarta
Alfred Nobel (1833-96), Swedish chemist, inventor, and philanthropist.
In 1867 Nobel achieved his goal; by using an organic packing material to reduce the volatility of the nitroglycerin, he produced what he called dynamite.
His will provided that the major portion of his $9 million estate be set up as a fund to establish yearly prizes for merit in physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, literature, and world peace.
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 NOBEL PRIZE: Overview
Alfred Nobel initially had hoped that his invention would put an end to war, by making it so horrible that no one would want to engage in it.
Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833.
According to Nobel's wishes, the prizes in science and literature were to be awarded by a Swedish committee, while the peace prize was to be given out by a Norwegian panel.
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 Alfred Nobel:Fant, Kenne :1559702222:eCampus.com
Alfred Nobel was determined to rise above the circumstances of poverty and humiliation to which he was born in 1833.
Alfred became convinced that if the awesome powers of nitroglycerine - a fascinating and deadly chemical oddity of no known practical value, discovered some years earlier - could be harnessed, the dividends would be limitless.
One of the most powerful men of his time, Nobel was viewed by some as the model of success and entrepreneurial drive; to his workers, he was anenlightened and scrupulously honest employer in an age of mindless exploitation.
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 Alfred Nobel Biography | World of Chemistry
Owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, Nobel is best known as the discoverer of dynamite and the man who upon his death bequeathed much of his large estate to support the annual Nobel Prizes for accomplishments in physics, chemistry, economics, science and medicine, literature, and the promotion of peace.
In Nobel's mind, all that remained was to devise a special blasting charge to ensure a predictable detonation of the nitroglycerine by shock rather than heat, which he already knew to be a dangerously imperfect firing method.
Nobel died in 1896 but despite his long and successful career developing and manufacturing explosives he was a devoted humanitarian who wished to aid efforts that might bring about lasting peace as well as beneficial advancements in technology.
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 TGCS - Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel (13 October 1833 - 10 December 1896) was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alfred Nobel became very interested in nitroglycerine and how it could be put to practical use in construction work.
Alfred Nobel's greatness lay in his ability to combine the penetrating mind of the scientist and inventor with the forward-looking dynamism of the industrialist.
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 Inventor Alfred Nobel Biography
In 1866, Alfred Nobel discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a paste which could be shaped into rods of a size and form suitable for insertion into drilling holes.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, born in Stockholm.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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 Alfred Nobel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alfred believed that it denied him the happiness of being loved, and Nobel while still young resolved to dedicate his life for the benefit of mankind.
Nobel left behind his private library of over 1500 volumes, mostly fiction in the original language and works by the great writers of the 19th century, theologians, historians, and scientists alike.
Nobel did not live long enough to see the deterring effect of his invention and how wrong his conception was.
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 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Science (The Prize's Rite)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the century since the Nobel Foundation was established, many have speculated on the reasons why Alfred Nobel did not provide for a prize to be awarded for achievement in the field of mathematics.
The whole point of Alfred Nobel's benevolent legacy was to encourage and benefit those who "have done mankind the greatest good," an altruistic effort which would have been forever tainted if he had allowed a personal grudge to eradicate any award for an important scientific category.
Nobel was interested in development work and specified that his prizes should be awarded for "important discoveries and inventions." Mathematics was a field he may have considered too theoretical to produce the direct practical benefits to mankind whose discoverers he sought to reward.
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 Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden to a family of engineers.
While there Nobel and his brothers had private teachers, and they received a first class education in the humanities and natural sciences.
When Nobel died on December 10, 1896, it was discovered that according to his will, his vast wealth was to be used for five prizes, including one for peace.
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 Nordic Culture > Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist - Scandinavica.com
But Alfred Nobel is also known as being the founder of the Nobel Prizes, an annual award given to outstanding contributions to mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and peace.
Alfred Nobel and Bertha von Suttner maintained a lifelong intellectual friendship which was solidly based on a shared a passion for world peace.
The Alfred Nobel story, DVD (1955), a story of tragedy, redemption and triumph of the inventor of dynamite as told through the eyes of Bertha von Suttner, one of the first recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 Invent Now | Hall of Fame | Search | Inventor Profile
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was also a great industrialist.
Nobel recognized this, and eventually patented dynamite, a combination of nitroglycerin absorbed by a porous substance.
Nobel developed many improvements in explosives, and he held 355 patents in different countries in electrochemistry, optics, biology, and physiology.
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 Alfred Bernhard Nobel Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Alfred Nobel was born Oct. 21, 1833, in Stockholm.
In 1875 came gelignite, a mixture of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin; and in 1887 ballistite, similar to gelignite, was produced in response to the military demand for a smokeless, slow-burning projectile propellant.
This was Nobel's last major invention, but throughout his life he improved on them all in detail, patented them, and left them to his companies, with which he had as little formal contact as possible.
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Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.(Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm.
Due to misfortunes in the construction work caused by the loss of some barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy the same year Alfred Nobel was born.
Alfred Nobel didn't just invent dynamite, he capitalized on his idea by founding 16 explosives plants in 14 countries.
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 Alfred Nobel - His Life and Work
Alfred's father, who wanted his sons to join his enterprise as engineers, disliked Alfred's interest in poetry and found his son rather introverted.
Alfred Nobel became very interested in nitroglycerine and how it could be put to practical use in construction work.
Alfred Nobel died in San Remo, Italy, on December 10, 1896.
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 AllRefer.com - Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Chemistry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 family's 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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 Nobel School ~ Introduction, Alfred Nobel, Nobel Prizes
Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School is an English medium co-educational school, conceived and established by a group of enthusiastic scholars, experts and child educationalists with a view to meet the needs of intelligent children.
Nobel Academy has earned its reputation by producing a generation of highly competent students well equipped with skills, knowledge and values to succeed in life.
Nobel Academy is named after the great Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel, the founder of the world’s most honoured Nobel Prizes.
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 Biographical Accounts
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 21, 1833.
Nobel was fluent in several languages, and wrote poetry and drama.
Nobel was also very interested in social and peace-related issues, and held views that were considered radical during his time.
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 Alfred Nobel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Bernhard Nobel}} (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a French newspaper, condemning his invention of dynamite, is said to have made him decide to leave a better legacy to the world after his death.
A common legend states that Nobel decided against a prize in mathematics because a woman - said to be either his fiancé, wife, or mistress - rejected him for or cheated on him with a famous mathematician, often claimed to be Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
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