The man behind the Nobel Prize

1. Alfred Bernhard Nobel :
THE MERCHANT OF DEATH

2.  He was born on 21st October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
 He died when he was 63 on 10th December 1896 in Sanremo,
Italy .
 His brothers were called Ludvig, Emil Oskar and Robert
Nobel.
 His parents were called Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell and
Immanuel Nobel.
About Alfred Nobel

4. Alfred Bernhard
Nobel he is a introvert
 inventor of dynamite
 invented ballistite
 he invented Gelignite or blasting gelatin
 held 350 patents and established 90 armaments
factories
 he wrote a tragic play titled Nemesis
 The Monument to Alfred Nobel was created in his
honour in Saint Petersburg.
 synthetic element nobelium is named after him

6. The Explosives Was Several
Decades In The Making
 Alfred Nobel worked in the private laboratory of Professor T. J. Pelouze,
a famous chemist. There he met the young Italian chemist Ascanio
Sobrero who, three years earlier, had invented nitro-glycerine, a highly
explosive liquid.
 It was considered too dangerous although its explosive power greatly
exceeded that of gunpowder, the liquid would explode in a very
unpredictable manner if subjected to heat and pressure. Alfred Nobel
became very interested in nitro-glycerine.

7. Dynamite
 Alfred Nobel concentrated on developing nitro-glycerine as an
explosive.
 To make the handling of nitro-glycerine safer Alfred Nobel mixed
nitro-glycerine with kieselguhr would turn the liquid into a paste
which could be shaped into rods of different size.
 He patented it in 1867
 Became "Europe's richest vagabond".

8. Dynamite Construction
A. Diatomaceous earth (or any other type of
absorbent material) soaked in nitro-glycerine.
B. Protective coating surrounding the explosive
material.
C. Blasting cap.
D. Electrical cable (or fuse) connected to the blasting
cap.

11. Ballistite
 Smokeless propellant.
 Mixture of equal parts of nitrocellulose and nitro-glycerine with 10%
of camphor.
 Alfred Nobel patented it in 1887
 Soon it replaced the use of black powder.
 This invention paved the way for Nobel prize.

13.  The incident in 1888 may have triggered the train of reflection that
culminated in his bequest for the Nobel Prizes.
 That year Alfred’s brother Ludvig had died while staying
in Cannes, France.
 The French newspapers reported Ludvig’s death but confused him with
Alfred, and one paper sported the headline “Le marchand de la mort est
mort” (“The merchant of death is dead.”)
 Perhaps Alfred Nobel established the prizes to avoid precisely the sort
of posthumous reputation suggested by this premature obituary.
Nobel Prize

15.  In the will he drafted in 1895, Nobel instructed that most of his
fortune be for “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have
conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.”
 These prizes as established by his will are the Nobel Prize
 The prize is awarded for the categories Physics , Chemistry
, Physiology or Medicine , Literature , and the Nobel Prize
for Peace.
 The first distribution of the prizes took place on December 10,
1901.

17. Nobel Prize facts
 Most of The Youngest Nobel Laureates are from physics
 The Nobel Prize amount for 2017 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK)
9 million per full Nobel Prize.
 Physicist hold high number of Nobel prize
 "Family Nobel Laureates“
 Common fields for Physics Laureates is particle physics
 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942 Are the years without prize

18. “humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries”.
Special thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and Robert
Cailliau.
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P.S. information are from naked science.org