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May 2, 2012 08:41	#11
ATTA_BUTT Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2010 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by JIMMYB Atta, do you know why there are so many fake things in China? That's because Chinese people are very lack of creativity. We can not make them. As a result, we copy them from the makers. It's a shame. Do you know the history of Nobel prize? A pacifist at heart and an inventor by nature, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. However, the invention that he thought would end all wars was seen by many others as an extremely deadly product. In 1888, when Alfred's brother Ludvig died, a French newspaper mistakenly ran an obituary for Alfred which called him the "merchant of death." Not wanting to go down in history with such a horrible epitaph, Nobel created a will that soon shocked his relatives and established the now famous Nobel Prizes. Who was Alfred Nobel? Why did Nobel's will make establishing the prizes so difficult? Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1842, when Alfred was nine years old, his mother (Andrietta Ahlsell) and brothers (Robert and Ludvig) moved to St. Petersburg, Russia to join Alfred's father (Immanuel), who had moved there five years earlier. The following year, Alfred's younger brother, Emil, was born. Immanuel Nobel, an architect, builder, and inventor, opened a machineshop in St. Petersburg and was soon very successful with contracts from the Russian government to build defense weapons. Because of his father's success, Alfred was tutored at home until the age of 16. Yet, many consider Alfred Nobel a mostly self-educated man. Besides being a trained chemist, Alfred was an avid reader of literature and was fluent in English, German, French, Swedish, and Russian. Alfred also spent two years traveling. He spent much of this time working in a laboratory in Paris, but also traveled to the United States. Upon his return, Alfred worked in his father's factory. He worked there until his father went bankrupt in 1859. Alfred soon began experimenting with nitroglycerine, creating his first explosions in early summer 1862. In only a year (October 1863), Alfred received a Swedish patent for his percussion detonator - the "Nobel lighter."

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Atta, do you know why there are so many fake things in China? That's because Chinese people are very lack of creativity. We can not make them. As a result, we copy them from the makers. It's a shame.

Do you know the history of Nobel prize?
A pacifist at heart and an inventor by nature, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. However, the invention that he thought would end all wars was seen by many others as an extremely deadly product. In 1888, when Alfred's brother Ludvig died, a French newspaper mistakenly ran an obituary for Alfred which called him the "merchant of death."

Not wanting to go down in history with such a horrible epitaph, Nobel created a will that soon shocked his relatives and established the now famous Nobel Prizes.

Who was Alfred Nobel? Why did Nobel's will make establishing the prizes so difficult?

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1842, when Alfred was nine years old, his mother (Andrietta Ahlsell) and brothers (Robert and Ludvig) moved to St. Petersburg, Russia to join Alfred's father (Immanuel), who had moved there five years earlier. The following year, Alfred's younger brother, Emil, was born.

Immanuel Nobel, an architect, builder, and inventor, opened a machineshop in St. Petersburg and was soon very successful with contracts from the Russian government to build defense weapons.

Because of his father's success, Alfred was tutored at home until the age of 16. Yet, many consider Alfred Nobel a mostly self-educated man. Besides being a trained chemist, Alfred was an avid reader of literature and was fluent in English, German, French, Swedish, and Russian.

Alfred also spent two years traveling. He spent much of this time working in a laboratory in Paris, but also traveled to the United States. Upon his return, Alfred worked in his father's factory. He worked there until his father went bankrupt in 1859.

Alfred soon began experimenting with nitroglycerine, creating his first explosions in early summer 1862. In only a year (October 1863), Alfred received a Swedish patent for his percussion detonator - the "Nobel lighter."

May 2, 2012 08:42

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Having moved back to Sweden to help his father with an invention, Alfred established a small factory at Helenborg near Stockholm to manufacture nitroglycerine. Unfortunately, nitroglycerine is a very difficult and dangerous material to handle. In 1864, Alfred's factory blew up - killing several people, including Alfred's younger brother, Emil.

The explosion did not slow down Alfred, and within only a month, he organized other factories to manufacture nitroglycerine.

In 1867, Alfred invented a new and safer-to-handle explosive - dynamite.

Though Alfred became famous for his invention of dynamite, many people did not intimately know Alfred Nobel. He was a quiet man who did not like a lot of pretense or show. He had very few friends and never married.

And though he recognized the destructive power of dynamite, Alfred believed it was a harbinger of peace. Alfred told Bertha von Suttner, an advocate for world peace,

My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.*
Unfortunately, Alfred did not see peace in his time. Alfred Nobel, chemist and inventor, died alone on December 10, 1896 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.

After several funeral services were held and Alfred Nobel's body was cremated, the will was opened. Everyone was shocked.

The Will

Alfred Nobel had written several wills during his lifetime, but the last one was dated November 27, 1895 - a little over a year before he died.

Nobel's last will left approximately 94 percent of his worth to the establishment of five prizes (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace) to "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."

May 2, 2012 21:28	#13
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Thanks for sharing so much info about Nobel. He invented dynamite but didn't foresee that his invention would kill so many people. Those who used dynamite to kill people should be blamed. The scientists make inventions but some people take advantage of their inventions to do some bad things. The nuclear bomb is dangerous but nuclear energy can be used to produce electricity.

May 3, 2012 11:37

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Thanks for sharing so much info about Nobel.

He invented dynamite but didn't foresee that his invention would kill so many people. Those who used dynamite to kill people should be blamed.

The scientists make inventions but some people take advantage of their inventions to do some bad things.
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Do you think the History of Nobel prize is a creative story? Will it help Chinese students?

May 3, 2012 20:45	#15
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by ATTA_BUTT Do you think the History of Nobel prize is a creative story? Will it help Chinese students? Yes. If Nobel wasn't creative, he wouldn't have invented dynamite. He invented the dynamite to end the wars but some people took advantage of his invention to kill people. It wasn't his fault.

May 4, 2012 21:49	#16
ATTA_BUTT Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2010 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by JIMMYB Yes. If Nobel wasn't creative, he wouldn't have invented dynamite. He invented the dynamite to end the wars but some people took advantage of his invention to kill people. It wasn't his fault. Do you think dynamite invented for peace? or end of war?

May 4, 2012 22:07	#17
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by ATTA_BUTT Do you think dynamite invented for peace? or end of war? Both. The peace comes after the war ends.

May 5, 2012 00:02	#18
ATTA_BUTT Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2010 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by JIMMYB Both. The peace comes after the war ends. Did you mean War is necessary for peace? or dynamite is necessary for peace?

May 5, 2012 00:45	#19
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by ATTA_BUTT Did you mean War is necessary for peace? or dynamite is necessary for peace? You totally misunderstood me, Atta. Only does the war end, the peace comes. He invented the dynamite, hoping that the war could end immediately. But he was wrong.

May 5, 2012 04:03	#20
ATTA_BUTT Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2010 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by JIMMYB You totally misunderstood me, Atta. Only does the war end, the peace comes. He invented the dynamite, hoping that the war could end immediately. But he was wrong. Dear, if he was wrong then how Nobel prize is right because of his wealth?

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