who is Alfred Nobel?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Sir Alfred Nobel

Answer 3

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 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



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Answer 4

sir alfred nobel was an inventor who accidently invented dynamite whlle doing a research .nobel prize was named after him to show respect to him

Answer 5

alfred n was one who led d starting of nobel prize he was scientist in chemical engg. and he invented dynamite ..search on google

Answer 6

well i know about him but i dont like his idea
i wud have liked him if he started this noble prize should be given to only those who helped and lived for poor peaple and did something for them
but its not like that this noble prize is given to everyone some stupids like who sits in A.C.rooms and makes some novels on peace describes the conditions of some poor countries
hence i dont like the idia of giving noble prize

Answer 7

1833 Alfred Nobel is born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father, Immanuel Nobel, goes bankrupt.

1837 Immanuel Nobel travels to Finland and then to St. Petersburg, Russia where he starts a mechanical workshop; his family is left in Sweden.

1842 The Nobel family is reunited in St. Petersburg.

1850-1852 Alfred Nobel goes to Paris and works for one year in the laboratory of T. Jules Pelouze. Travels to Italy, Germany and the U.S.

1853-1856 The Crimean War rages.
The Nobel Company first flourishes, but then undergoes bankruptcy as the war ends and the Russian military cancels orders.

Desperate search for new products. Zinin, Alfred Nobel's chemistry teacher, reminds him of nitroglycerine.

1860 Alfred Nobel starts his experiments with nitroglycerine.

1863 Obtains first patent on nitroglycerine (blasting oil) as an industrial explosive. Develops and patents an igniter (blasting cap) for triggering the explosion of nitroglycerine. Moves to Stockholm and continues experiments.
1864 Emil, Alfred Nobel's brother, is killed during the preparation of nitroglycerine at Heleneborg, Stockholm.

Nobel continues experiments and founds Nitroglycerin AB in Stockholm, Sweden.

1865 Alfred Nobel improves blasting cap and moves to Germany to set up Alfred Nobel & Co. Factory in Krümmel near Hamburg.

1866 Establishes the United States Blasting Oil Company in the U.S.

Violent explosion destroys the Krümmel plant. Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".

1867 Alfred Nobel obtains patent for dynamite.

1870 Establishes Société général pour la fabrication de la dynamite in Paris, France.

1871 British Dynamite Company (Ardeer, Scotland, UK) is founded. In 1877 the company name was changed to Nobel's Explosives Company.

1872 Immanuel, Alfred Nobel's father, passes away.

1873 At the age of 40 Alfred Nobel is a wealthy man. He moves to Paris and settles at Avenue Malakoff.

Manufacture of nitroglycerine and dynamite starts at Ardeer.

1875 Alfred Nobel invents blasting gelatine in Paris. Patented it in 1876.

1876 Dynamitaktiengesellschaft (DAG), formerly Alfred Nobel & Co (Hamburg, Germany), is formed.

Alfred Nobel advertises for a housekeeper/personal secretary, meets with Bertha Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau (later von Suttner) and hires her. She leaves her employment after a short time and becomes a leading peace activist.

1880 Dynamite Nobel is formed by the fusion of Nobel's Italian and Swiss companies.

1881 Alfred Nobel buys an estate and laboratory at Sevran outside Paris.

1885 German Union formed by fusing DAG and a group of German dynamite companies.

1886 Nobel-Dynamite Trust Co, (London, UK) a cartelle of DAG and Nobel's Explosives.

1887 Obtains patent for blasting powder "ballistite" in France.

1889 Andriette, Alfred Nobel's mother, passes away.

1891 Alfred Nobel leaves Paris and settles in San Remo, Italy after dispute with the French government over ballistite.

1893 Alfred Nobel hires Ragnar Sohlman whom he later named executor of his will and testament.

1894 Alfred Nobel buys a small machine works, Bofors-Gullspång and a manor (Björkborn) at Karlskoga, Sweden.

1895 The third and last will of Alfred Nobel is signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris.

1896 Alfred Nobel dies in his home in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.
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Answer 8

An inventor