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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist who invented dynamite, patented in 1867, and other explosives, building an international business in explosives and armaments. In his will he left most of his fortune to found prizes for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace, the Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901.
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