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Alfred Nobel

21.10 - Alfred Nobel was born

Alfred Nobel

On October 21, 1833, Swedish engineer, chemist, and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm. He is remembered in history as the man who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize. At the age of ten, Alfred moved with his family to St. Petersburg. At the age of eighteen, he left Russia and went to Paris, where he studied chemistry, …

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