Alfred Nobel, born in Sweden1833, was the inventor of dynamite. He was much more than an inventor, was fluent in several languages, enjoyed poetry and was considered to have radical ideas during his time. He studied chemistry.
He left a lasting legacy by establishing the famous peace prize which is named in his honor.
In the year Alfred was born, his father went bankrupt because several barges of building materials went missing.

In 1864, a large amount of nitroglycerin exploded accidentally at the factory where Nobel worked with the dangerous substances. Nobel’s younger brother, Emil, was killed in the accident. Nobel determined to find a way to make this explosive safer to use.
This led the authorities to ban nitroglycerine experimentation within Stockholm’s city limits. Nobel moved his laboratory to a barge anchored on Lake Mälaren. Nobel experimented with different additives and soon discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with kieselguhr, would turn nitroglycerine liquid into a paste that could be shaped into rods suitable for insertion into drilling holes.

Nobel patented this mixture under the name of dynamite. Nobel rapidly became rich and as his explosives empire expanded through Europe. Nobel’s discovery of a relatively safe yet powerful explosive had a positive effect on the construction industry. Demand grew rapidly in various countries in large infrastructure projects such as ports, tunnels, railways and mines.

Nobel believed that this invention will please mankind, and then discovered that it caused a lot of destruction and death and loss of life, which prompted him to write in his last will announcing the donation of wealth in a prize named after the Nobel, made annually in the world for each of the achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature.It is also given to men and women who have served humanitarian for peace.