ALFRED B.NOBEL (1833 - 1896)
SILVER MEDALLION SHOWING PROFILE OF ALFRED NOBEL
The shortest autobiography ever written is that of Alfred Nobel. It reads as below.
Description: Pitiable half creature, who should have been shifted by the doctor when he made his entry yelling into the world.
Merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anybody.
Faults: Lacks family, cheerful nature, healthy stomach, Greatest and only petition, Not to be buried alive.
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm in Sweden to Immanuel Nobel, a poor farmer later an engineer. Nobel was schooled at home. Young Nobel was a chemist at 16. He know English, French, German, Russian and Swedish. He worked in US for four years under John Ericsson, the builder of a warship. Then he worked in his father’s factory at Petersburg, Russia and the firm was closed in 1859. The family returned to Sweeden where Nobel began experimenting with explosives. He invented dynamite and earned huge money. Once an accident occurred in his workshop. A nitroglycerine explosion wrecked the plant. His younger brother and four employees were killed. He has to face a huge loss and rebuilding of the factory was a difficult task. There were some restrictions to make nitroglycerine. But after he discovered dynamite his factories at various locations grew well and he made his fortune. He sold dynamite. In 1887 he invented ballistite, a smokeless nitrogylycerine powder. Many countries used it as gun powder.
Noble when he died in 1896 left a substantial amount of nine million dollars, the interest on which, according to his will is awarded every year in the form of Nobel prizes persons for their outstanding works in Physics, Chemistry, Medical Sciences, Literature and peace. Later economics was also added. Albert Einstein, Ravindranath Tagore, Amartyasen, Alexander Fleming and many others are the receipients of Nobel Prize. An element has been named as Nobelium in his memory.
Description: Pitiable half creature, who should have been shifted by the doctor when he made his entry yelling into the world.
Merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anybody.
Faults: Lacks family, cheerful nature, healthy stomach, Greatest and only petition, Not to be buried alive.
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm in Sweden to Immanuel Nobel, a poor farmer later an engineer. Nobel was schooled at home. Young Nobel was a chemist at 16. He know English, French, German, Russian and Swedish. He worked in US for four years under John Ericsson, the builder of a warship. Then he worked in his father’s factory at Petersburg, Russia and the firm was closed in 1859. The family returned to Sweeden where Nobel began experimenting with explosives. He invented dynamite and earned huge money. Once an accident occurred in his workshop. A nitroglycerine explosion wrecked the plant. His younger brother and four employees were killed. He has to face a huge loss and rebuilding of the factory was a difficult task. There were some restrictions to make nitroglycerine. But after he discovered dynamite his factories at various locations grew well and he made his fortune. He sold dynamite. In 1887 he invented ballistite, a smokeless nitrogylycerine powder. Many countries used it as gun powder.
Noble when he died in 1896 left a substantial amount of nine million dollars, the interest on which, according to his will is awarded every year in the form of Nobel prizes persons for their outstanding works in Physics, Chemistry, Medical Sciences, Literature and peace. Later economics was also added. Albert Einstein, Ravindranath Tagore, Amartyasen, Alexander Fleming and many others are the receipients of Nobel Prize. An element has been named as Nobelium in his memory.
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