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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. Nobel is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He worked on various important contributions and inventions to science, holding 355 patents during his life.
business · Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896) · chemist · industrialist · philanthropist · photographer · weapons manufacturer · scientist · inventor · entrepreneur · pacifist · also Alfred Nobel, Alfred B. Nobel, Nobel
Born 21 October 1833 · Died 10 December 1896 · Q23810
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Newswise: Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo to give fifth annual Seskind Lecture | Newswise
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United Nations: Press Briefing by Yemeni Human Rights Defender and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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heraldo.es: Un Premio Nobel para despedir el eclipse en Teruel: "La ciencia es más necesaria que nunca"
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Winn FM: Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC
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Diario Sur: Mercado de Primera División: Tsitaishvili, Nobel Mendy y Ponce, los nombres del día
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finance.yahoo.com: Nobel Heroes Day 2026 - AI For Science Summit (AFSS) Launches in Singapore This October
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OneFootball: Nobel Mendy salta de la cuarta española a la Premier por 25 M€
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Alt News rated the claim “Nobel Prize committee deputy leader Asle Toje said Modi biggest contender for Peace prize” False.
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Published “The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues” in Science — cited 5,388 times.
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Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans” in Science — cited 4,858 times.
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Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project” in Nature Genetics — cited 8,587 times.
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Published “Repeated observation of breast tumor subtypes in independent gene expression data sets” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 4,117 times.
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And has been translated into Slovenian, French, Italian, and Spanish
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Alfred Nobel's great-great-nephew, Peter Nobel (born 1931), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given "in Alfred Nobel's memory" from the five other awards
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1998).
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To mark the 90th anniversary of the first Nobel Prize presentation
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And they provided funds for the construction of it
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By donating a large sum of money to the Nobel Foundation to be used to set up a sixth prize in the field of economics in honor of Alfred Nobel
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Nobel was Lutheran and, during his years living in Paris, he regularly attended the Church of Sweden Abroad led by pastor Nathan Söderblom, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930.
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Won John Fritz Medal (1910).
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Awarded Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
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Awarded Officer of the Imperial Order of the Rose.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Knight of the Order of the Polar Star.
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross.
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
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Died 1896-12-10.
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“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.”
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“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”
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“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”
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And probably influenced his decision to include the Nobel Peace Prize in his will
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Career landmark: will.
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In a naive attempt to grow closer to Nobel
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When he acquired Bofors-Gullspång, the Björkborn Manor was included, where he stayed during the summers
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After being accused of high treason against France for selling Ballistite to Italy, he moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy, acquiring Villa Nobel, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, where he died in 1896
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The death of his brother Ludvig supposedly caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error
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“Opis: fałszywy nekrolog napisany w 1888 roku (8 lat przed śmiercią Nobla) przez jedną z francuskich gazet, opatrując artykuł tytułem Hurtownik śmierci nie żyje.”
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The same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893
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In Baden bei Wien, where she worked as an employee in a flower shop that catered to wealthy clientele
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Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha von Suttner became his secretary, but she left him after a brief stay to marry her previous lover, Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner
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Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887, patented ballistite, a predecessor of cordite
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A substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin
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Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (1831–1888), who greatly improved the business
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While his first Swedish patent, which he received in 1863, was on "ways to prepare gunpowder"
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At age 18, he went to the United States for one year to study, working for a short period under Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad, USS Monitor
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Born 1833-10-21.
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