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AT HIS DESK MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
Posing next to the tools of his trade,
Nobel was both a chemist and an
industrialist. After inventing dynamite,
he amassed a great fortune from the
manufacture and sale of explosives.

1875 1888 1896

Nobel invents gelignite, a Ludvig, another one of Alfred’s Aged 63, Nobel dies in San
moldable explosive that is brothers, dies. Newspapers Remo, Italy, from heart failure.
safer to handle and store mistakenly run an obituary He leaves his vast wealth to
Dynamite sticks
with long fuses than dynamite. It is also of Alfred, calling him “the fund awards that would become
to light them more powerful than dynamite. merchant of death.” known as the Nobel Prize.

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