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Show ORIGIN OF THE NOBEL PRIZES. Not many people know the origin of the Nobel; prizes. Popular Science explains. Alfred Nobel). was born in Stockholm. Studied in St. Petersburg, began to assist his father in his engineering works, but soon took up the study of high ex-plosives. ex-plosives. In 1864 he took out a patent for dyna- mite, obtained by incorporating nitro-glycerine with some porous substances. Later he invented bollcstrite, a nitro-glycerine smokeless powder. From his manufacture of dynamite and other- 'H explosives at his works t. rshire and from de-veloping de-veloping the Baker oil f , he made an immense fortune from which he was able in his will ..to found the prizes that bear his name. He died in 1896. Each prize is of about the value- , of-$40,000. of-$40,000. Nobel was made a noble with hereditary transmission of the title in 1885. The science of chemistry grew out of the old H alchemists who exhausted their lives in trying II to transmute base metals into gold. They failed 1 1 but Alfred Nobel succeeded. |
