The Nobel Prize: The Story of Alfred Nobel and the Most Famous Prize in the World
By Michael Worek.
Description
"I would like . . . to help dreamers, they find it hard to get on in life." -- Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel, born in Sweden in 1833, was a brilliant inventor and businessman. Although he held more than 300 patents when he died in 1896, he earned his extensive fortune and worldwide fame through his invention of dynamite and his work on armaments. He never married and was constantly on the move around Europe, visiting his manufacturing plants. His handwritten one-page last will and testament directed that the majority of his vast fortune be invested and the interest distributed to the...
ISBN(s)
1554077117, 9781554077113
