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Biography

Name: Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Birth Date: October 21, 1833
Death Date: December 10, 1896
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Place of Death: San Remo, Italy
Nationality: Swedish
Gender: Male
Occupations: chemist

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Biography of Alfred Nobel
715 words, approx. 2 pages
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,...
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Biography of Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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The Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) invented dynamite and other explosives, but he is best remembered for the Nobel Prizes, which he endowed with the bulk of his personal fortune. Alfred Nobel was born Oct. 21, 1833, in Stockholm. His...


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Alfred Nobel (October 21, 1833–December 10, 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes . Unsourced If I have a...


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Alfred Bernhard Nobel Summary
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1833-1896 Swedish Chemist, Engineer and Industrialist As the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel amassed great wealth producing instruments of destruction. He left the majority of his fortune to establishing the Nobel Foundation, among whose prizes is...
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel Summary
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1833-1896 Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize trust. After studying mechanical engineering in Russia and the United States, Nobel was employed at his family's factory in St. Petersburg, where he manufactured...
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Alfred Nobel Information
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments...


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The Economist (US)
Alfred Nobel.
04/09/1994: 320 words, approx. 1 pages
THIS biography of the man who founded the Nobel prizes contains plenty of new material about the personality of the arms entrepreneur as well as about his business triumphs and disasters. Alfred Nobel (1833-96) was a chemist of genius--he invented dynamite, blasting gelatin...
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The Antioch Review
Alfred Nobel: A Biography.(Brief Article)
03/22/1994: 306 words, approx. 1 pages
Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant, trans. from Swedish by Marianne Ruuth. Arcade Pub., 342 pp., $24.95. A long line of biographers have found a likely subject in this remarkable inventor and businessman whom Victor Hugo called "Europe's richest vagabond." A man...
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AP-Travel Online
Athens: New Alfred Nobel Museum
11/9/2006: 456 words, approx. 2 pages
The Greek capital hardly springs immediately to mind as the home for a shrine to the 19th century Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. But letters from Victor Hugo, Russian oil field maps and explosives factory share certificates will...
 


 

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