Today the annual Nobel Prizes are officially awarded to scientists in physics, medicine, chemistry and economics. And then of course there are the Nobel Prizes for literature and peace. But who was Alfred Nobel who founded these prizes? How did he become so rich that there is still prize money left? And did he also contribute to peace with his invention of dynamite?
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(The Nobel’s Extradynamit. Found in the collection of Nobelmuseet Stockholm)
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