Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Alfred Nobel. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
Die Dynamit Nobel AG war ein deutsches Chemie- und Rstungsunternehmen , dessen Firmensitz sich zuletzt in Troisdorf befand. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamit_Nobel_AG
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The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize. www.nobel.se/nobel/alfred-nobel/index.html
