Alfred Nobel

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored men and women worldwide for his or her achievements whose work had been of the greatest benefit to mankind. It is a little known fact that the man who created the Nobel Peace Prize was the inventor of dynamite. Nobel’s dynamite was an extraordinary invention, with this invention we are now able to build roads, ports, bridges, mines, tunnels, and for the use of war.

Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm in the year 1833. When Nobel was five years old, his father Immanuel Nobel moved their family to St. Petersburg. There he started a mechanical workshop for the construction of land mines. Ever since Nobel was young, he has been around explosives, and this is where it all started (Usselman 439). Immanuel Nobel’s sons were home schooled by great teachers. These teachers taught at the level of university professors. They were taught subjects on humanity, natural science, literature, and philosophy. Nobel and his brothers learned Russian, French, English and German (Frangsmyr). The professors stressed on the learning of physics and chemistry. As suspected, Nobel took a great interest in chemistry. Nobel spent most of his prime in the capital of Russia. Learning five languages allowed Nobel to adapt to the international nature that would soon become so important in his life (Frangsmyr).

Nobel spent a year in Paris with Jules Pelouze, the most famous chemist at that time. Throughout this year, Nobel co...

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...se who have benefited in mankind”. At this time it was very unusual to donate money for science and charity purposes. In 1901, the first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded (Usselman 439). The medal that was awarded every year was designed by Rune Karlzon. The back of the medal shows a tunnel blasted by Nobel by dynamite. On the front it showed a drawing of Alfred with the Latin inscription Creavit et promovit, which means he created and promoted (Frangsmyr).

Nobel’s dynamite proved to society that he was not only an inventor, but a businessman and an entrepreneur. His invention benefits all of mankind. Without the dynamite there would be no build roads, ports, bridges, mines, tunnels, or war.