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Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.
Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).
Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.
Alfred Nobel's death mask, at the Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.
The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.
In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.
This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "
* Nobel, Alfred Bernhard in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
The Life of Alfred Nobel.
* Alfred Nobel US Patent No 78, 317, dated 26 May 1868
* Evlanoff, M. and Fluor, M. Alfred Nobel – The Loneliest Millionaire.
* Sohlman, R. The Legacy of Alfred Nobel, transl.
Alfred Nobel.
* Alfred Nobel – Man behind the Prizes
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Alfred and founded
The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.
R. F. Littledale criticized the Sun myth theory when he illustrated that Max Müller on his own principles was himself only a Solar myth, whilst Alfred Lyall delivered a still stronger attack on the same theory and its assumption that tribal gods and heroes, such as those of Homer, were mere reflections of the Sun myth by proving that the gods of certain Rajput clans were really warriors who founded the clans not many centuries ago, and were the ancestors of the present chieftains.
* 1892 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. ( d. 1984 )
The Christ's College Rugby Football Club ( CCRFC ) was founded in 1875 by Alfred Cort Haddon, considered the father of modern anthropology.
Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956 ) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
Although his grandfather, Thomas Whitehead, was known for having founded Chatham House Academy, a fairly successful school for boys, Alfred North was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, then considered the best public school in the country.
Marshall founded the " Cambridge School " which paid special attention to increasing returns, the theory of the firm, and welfare economics ; after his retirement leadership passed to Alfred Pigou and John Maynard Keynes.
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, founded in 1976, focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, as well as pieces by Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain.
These wars were a prelude to the long struggle of the Saxons of Alfred the Great against the Danes a generation later, which also included the leader named Guthrum, all of whom founded the Danelaw.
After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.
In chamber music, he founded the Schnabel Trio with the violinist Alfred Wittenberg and the cellist Anton Hekking ; they played together between 1902 and 1904.
The Alfred Jarry Theatre, founded by Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, housed several Absurdist plays, including ones by Ionesco and Adamov.
One of the most important symbolist journals was Le Mercure de France, edited by Alfred Vallette, which succeeded La Pléiade ; founded in 1890, this periodical endured until 1965.
Roys of Wroxham, dubbed the world's largest village store, was founded in Coltishall by Alfred Roy in 1895, with a second store opening in Hoveton in 1899.
The area known as Lake Alfred was founded by snowbirds escaping the cold of Fargo, North Dakota.
A few years later, in 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones founded a fund ( that was unregulated ) that bought stocks while selling other stocks short, hence hedging some of the market risk, and the hedge fund was born.
Named for General Alfred Pleasonton, the city was founded in 1869.
* Alfred M. Best ( 1876 – 1958 ), actuary who founded the A. M. Best Company, Inc. in 1899.
Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford ( a title formerly claimed by University College, whose claim of being founded by King Alfred is no longer promoted ).
Some claim the college was founded by King Alfred in 872.
Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a character in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
It was named for a local settler, Alfred W. Reed, who founded the city in 1912.
In 1868 Charles Dingee and Alfred Conrad founded the Dingee & Conrad Nursery, a commercial grower of fruit trees, roses and other nursery products.
It was founded by his son Alfred Beckley ( US Army general and Confederate militia commander, born in Washington, D. C .).

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