Bryce Sizemore
Ms.Green
Chemistry 3A
12/6/16
Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
Alfred Nobel is one of the most influential Chemists of all time, he is widely known as the man who invented dynamite. Although this is only one of many amazing accomplishments from this extraordinary man. He also played a big part in the industrial revolution, and helped run a successful family business. Alfred Nobel was born October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel looked up to his dad from an early age his father was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. Alfred's father had been known to experiment with different techniques for blasting rocks. His father was a very influential man in Alfred’s life and set him on the path of successes.
In 1842 Alfred’s family moved to St. Petersburg, there Alfred received a first class education from private teachers. By the age of 17 Alfred was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, English, and German. He went on to study Chemistry. His father later sent him to paris to work in a laboratory with famous
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The Noble family business was reaching new heights. Although this would not last, as the war ended and conditions changed Nobel’s Father was forced into bankruptcy. The family decided to move back to sweden where he dedicated all of his attention to developing Nitroglycerine as a manufacturable explosive Not long after tragedy struck the Nobel family when Alfred's younger brother was killed in an explosion in 1864. This motivated alfred to develop a safer explosive so that he could help prevent anything like this from ever happening again. His brother had been working in a factory which had been producing Nitroglycerin, many were killed and harmed in the incident, and the explosion left the city to ban the production of Nitroglycerin in the