Categorical Index | Cafe | Library | Gallery | Cafe Music | Lucidcafe Home | Revised: January 11, 1999 Alfred Nobel Swedish Industrialist 1833-1896 Alfred (Bernhard) Nobel was born October 21, 1833 in Stockholm Sweden. Nobel, who invented dynamite, endowed a $9 million fund in his will. The interest on this endowment was to be used as awards for people whose work most benefited humanity. He ...

Alfred Nobel Invents Dynamite 1866 Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and a very skillful entrepreneur and business man, born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father was Immanuel Nobel, an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. After a bankruptcy, Immanuel left his family in Stockholm in 1837 to start up a new business in St. Petersburg, Russia. Immanuel's ...