Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, a city in the early nineteenth century was in full swing. It was the city that went all the commerce of northern Europe. Alfred's father was a renowned engineer, specializing in explosivos. Siendo muy joven Alfred su padre inventaría la mina submarina. Todos los países quisieron comprarle la patente. Al final su padre se decidiría por Rusia a donde se mudó con toda su familia.
En 1842 siendo aún niño su familia se mudó a San Petersburgo donde su padre montaría una fábrica de armamentos. Su padre mandó a Alfred por toda Europa cuando tenía diecisiete años. Viajó por todos los países que se consideraban importantes para la época, Francia, Alemania, Italia, Inglaterra y EEUU. Su padre que se había dado cuenta de que su hijo había heredado su inteligencia, intentó por todos los medios cultivarla. Se preocupó por que su hijo tuviera la mejor educación and an open mind and modern as the times demanded. His two science teachers were two professors of chemistry (and Nicolai Trapp Julija Zinin), maybe this would be the reason for their vocation more.
The wave of progress that Europe was going through that countries give up their desire for wars on the continent. After Napoleon everyone expected another war but did not come and when enough time went by people began to think that it need not come. That is why Russia lost interest in explosives Nobel family. They closed the factory in St. Petersburg and moved back to Sweden.
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in his travels had heard of the piroglicerina which would later be called nitroglycerin, an explosive more powerful than he had at the time but with a catch was highly unstable. Alfred began his career until the invention that would make him rich. The method for making nitroglycerin became stable. His father wanted to be with the idea but Alfred made it clear that that was his job. Would help his father from the time understanding what would be his son who would throw from the time the family business. So he got his first patent to oil called explosive nitroglycerin.
factory exploded in 1864 on the outskirts of Stockholm in which his brother Emil die. As soon as he could created a corporation and continued his work. I could not waste time as different entities ignoring the accident began to ask lots of oil explosive with detonators also patented it. Alfred in the U.S. exploded still another of its factories, that of Germany. He had no choice but to return and take charge of investigations. I had to get his substance find the point that it should be stable.
In 1867 he found a way to make it stable. Mixed with a type of porous sand (diatomaceous earth), showed that soaks the oil explosive. Once united the two substances were more than a malleable cake that was brought into cylindrical tubes. They endured beatings and the passage of time. This is how got its new substance, dynamite. less explosive but stable. Alfred and his father received the prize Lettersdtska of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. An award for inventions that improve the quality of being human. A prize that Alfred and his father both felt pretty. Alfred Nobel
part of its scientific side and also had a philosophical inventor. Leia quite to the point that many scholars consider it a humanist for hitting all the issues. He wrote several books on philosophy giving opinions on classical thinkers as Plato and Aristotle and thinkers of the time. He wrote about war and peace, some say that as the rewards for bad conscience, but nothing further as their inventions while hard life never had military applications. Among his publications
one stands out above the others and is a treatise on religion called Nemesis. A clear intention to work with anti-Catholic in his life for his status and declared a Lutheran education failed to broadcast. A Swedish death a priest found the works in an attempt to protect his name destroyed the work. There are only a copy in the National Archives of Sweden.
to his death on December 10, 1896, left a will that was giving way to the creation of the Nobel prizes:
"The undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, hereby declare after deep reflection, my last will and respect of property that I can leave after my death is:
as follows will be available throughout the realizable remaining fortune to leave to die: the capital, held in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund whose interest will be distributed annually as a reward to those who, during the previous year, had given mankind the greatest services. total will be divided into five equal parts, to be awarded: one to whom, in the field of Science Physics, has made the most important discovery or invention, another who has come in Chemistry or introduced where the best improvement, the third the author of the most important discovery in Physiology or Medicine, the fourth to the work that has produced Most notable in the literary sense of idealism, and finally, the fifth of whom have worked more and better in the work of the brotherhood of peoples, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and training pro- and propagation of peace congresses.
Prizes will be awarded: the Physics and Chemistry at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Physiology or Medicine by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, that of literature by the Academy in Stockholm, the work of the Peace, by a committee of five persons elected by the Norwegian Storthing . It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes does not take into account nationality, so that gain the most worthy, whether or not Scandinavian. As these provisions testamentary executors appointed Mr. Ragnar Sohma, residing in Befors, Verlandia and Mr. Rudolf Lilljequist, residing in Malmskildnadsgatan 31, Stockholm, and Bengtfors near Uddevalla.
from now, will this is the only legal value. With him are without ef ecto all previous testamentary dispositions that may arise after my death. "
Paris, November 27, 1895.
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Everyone was fine today and still being carried out Nobel prizes. There is the urban legend that the Nobel Prize of mathematics there that Alfred Nobel's wife was unfaithful with a mathematician. Yet the Swedish crown enabled a special award for math than the Nobel.
The Nobel economics would be proposed later in 1968. The Nobel prize is not accepted by his family and for this reason it was agreed that no further awards would be implemented later. The prize for the economist today's prize is labeled sociologist, with a more general character and monopolizing the political science, psychology and sociology.
the death of Alfred Nobel left a sum sufficient but not particularly generous to his family and the rest is donated to intituciones to be devoted to giving the Nobel Prizes. The bodies were found to give the awards responsabildad Unintentionally previously raised but being donated money and decided to accept it and to this day is still celebrated by having these great prestige.
Finally highlight a few things. The idea of \u200b\u200bthis review would be to make a biography but has been more of a simple comment. To note that there has been enough information read'll add homegrown conclusions.
First, do not believe that Nobel was very familiar, I have found personal information about family or more personal relacciones. Did not suffer too much pain or not externalized by the death of his brother, is devoted to turn the factories rather than to mourn for him. He made it clear to his father that patents were his. And do not let too much money home to his death.
Second, do not think it was due to problems of conscience left in his will the Nobel prizes rather see it as a way to leave something for posterity. Something like planting a tree, write a book and have a child but big. Leave something to his death that would be remembered and at the same time providing a bit to the history of mankind.
Finally, say that perhaps these people was Immanuel Kant as a character more insensitive or lacking in empathy was a stoic old-fashioned.
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