Alfred Nobel

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a famous inventor, entrepreneur, and businessman. He lived most of his younger years in Stockholm under his strict, hard working, inventor of a Father, Immanuel Nobel. Alfred grew up to be a millionaire and founded almost 100 laboratories around the world. Many modern chemical industries were based off of Nobel’s labs. Alfred despite his violent invention, he was a strong pacifist and did not want his patented product to be used in the military.

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the fourth of eight children. He was often ill as a child, but was very curious about his surroundings. His father was an engineer and inventor. Immanuel Nobel built many buildings and bridges and was developing techniques for blasting rocks. He also helped in the designing process of the steam engine. This influenced Alfreds inventive spirit. Alfred’s family went bankrupt the year he was born because of a construction mishap. In 1837, Immanuel Nobel left his family to start a new career in Finland and Russia, when Alfred was four. Andriette Nobel, his mother, started a grocery store which provided a modest income while her husband was gone. In 1842, the family followed Immanuel to St. Petersburg. They were making good money, as Immanuel sold supplies to the Tsar and Russian army during the Crimean War. In Russia, Alfred and his siblings were given a first class education by private professors. The schooling included sciences, languages and literature. Alfred Nobel was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, English and German by age seventeen. He loved chemistry and physics but his main interest was English, literature, and poetry. Alfred's father, who wanted his sons to join his enterpris...

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..., physics, chemistry, and literature. This was carried out a few years after Nobel’s death in 1896.

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