Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, manufacturer of military equipment and inventor of dynamite, was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm and died on December 10, 1896 in Stockholm.
In 1884, was recommended for membership of the Royal Society of London, the Technical Society of Paris, and the Royal Swedish Scientific Society.
In 1887, patented gunpowder for ejected shells.
In 1890, persecuted by the French, he left Paris, where he had lived for eighteen years, and moved to San Lemo, Italy, where he founded the Institute. For the next six years he worked on a wide variety of new inventions in the chemical, mechanical, electrical, and medical fields.
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In October 1863, Nobel was granted a patent for the invention of a dynamite explosive. This invention is known as the "Nobel igniter".
In 1864, the patent for the invention of nitroglycerine explosive.
Nobel not only made contributions in explosives, but also in electrochemistry, optics, biology, physiology and literature and other aspects of the establishment. During his lifetime, Nobel patented as many as 355 inventions in Britain alone.
In addition to explosives, Nobel for the use of nitroglycerin fuses, silent guns, metal hardening, welding, welding, and the stability of bullets, the use of gas undersea equipment is extremely safe, rescue of shipwrecks with rockets, etc., have been theoretical and practical achievements; he was in artificial rubber, artificial leather and nitrocellulose-based manufacturing of real lacquer or dyes, artificial gemstones, etc., the experimental The research has created.
Nobel died in 1895 before his will, most of his property 9.2 million U.S. dollars as a fund, with its annual interest (200,000 U.S. dollars a year) to set up a prize in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the Peace Prize five kinds of prizes (in 1969, the Bank of Sweden added a prize for economics), rewarded the year the greatest contribution to the scholars in the above fields. Since 1901, the prizes have been awarded each year at 4:30 p.m. on December 10, the time of Nobel's death.
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