ABOUT HIS LIFE
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist who revolutionised the thoughts of the explosives. He was born on 21st of October 1833 in Stockholm of Sweden. His family moved to Russia when he was nine years old and travelled all over the Europe, which made Alfred to speak different languages fluently such as Swedish, Russian, French, English and German. Alfred built bridges and buildings with his father, Immanuel Nobel in Stockholm which inspired Alfred to experiment new ways of blasting rocks in a safer way. On 1860, he first experimented with nitroglycerine which was first invented by Ascanio Sobrero in 1846. On 1863, he invented the detonator for activating the nitroglycerine and opened his first factory to manufacture the explosives. However when the explosive accidently killed his brother Emil, Alfred Nobel believed that there will be a even more safer way of detonating the explosives.
On 1866, he finally discovered that adding sillica to nitroglycerine will not detonate unexpectedly until it gets detonated by the blasting cap (detonator). He named this explosive ‘dynamite’. This made dynamite easy to transport and implant dut to its cylinder shape which attracted many businesses, turning Alfred to a very successful person. This explosive revolutionised the process of construction, mining and destruction. Before his death, he devoted 94% of his money (265 million dollars) for creating the Nobel Prizes which is awarded to a person in new discoveries of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Peace and Literature. He died of a stroke on 10th of December, 1896.