ALFRED NOBEL

EARLY YEARS

• Birthday is October 21 1833
• Born in Stockholm, Sweden
• Third of four sons.
• Fourth of eight children

GROWING UP

• Often sickly as a child
• Family moved to St. Petersberg
• Father became successful
• Was homeschooled

AS A YOUNG MAN

• Studied in Paris
• Left Paris to study in America
• Came back to work for his father.
• Moved back to Stockholm with his father and Mother

CAREER

• Worked with explosives
• Eventually created dynamite
• Built factories in different places

CAREER (CONT.)

• Tested dynamites in quarries
• Wrongfully had an obituary
• Signed a will to protect his patents

LATER YEARS

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science
• Honorary doctorates degree
• Invested in oilfields
• Moved to Italy

DEATH

• Died in San Remo, Italy
• Death date: December 10 1896
• Left large sum of money in trust

LEGACY

• Trust fund used to establsih Nobel Prizes
• Synthetic element named after him
• Three monuents commemorating his life

PERSONAL LIFE

• Never married
• Never had children
• Wrote poetry in his spare time
• A devout Lutheran
• Traveled a lot

INVENTIONS

• Dynamite
• Gelignite
• Ballisite
• Detonator

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"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied," -Alfred Nobel

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.biography.com/people/alfred-nobel-9424195#an-invention-and-a-leg...
• http://www.famousscientists.org/alfred-nobel/
• http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Alfred_Nobel.htm
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/416842/Alfred-Bernhard-Nobel
• Siarra Gbakima 8th Period