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Alfred Nobel

1833 - 1896

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( noh-BEL; Swedish: [ˈǎlfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː] ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also made several other important contributions to science, holding 355 patents during his life. Born into the prominent Nobel family in Stockholm, Nobel displayed an early aptitude for science and learning, particularly in chemistry and languages; he became fluent in six languages and filed his first patent at the age of 24. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Nobel is the 2nd most popular chemist (down from 1st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Sweden and the most popular Swedish Chemist.

Alfred Nobel is most famous for inventing dynamite.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alfred Nobel ranks 2 out of 602. Before him are Louis Pasteur. After him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Johannes Brahms, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Élie Ducommun, Alexander Borodin, Wilhelm Dilthey, Benjamin Harrison, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Alfred von Schlieffen, J. E. B. Stuart, and Jonas Lie. Among people deceased in 1896, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Clara Schumann, Paul Verlaine, Anton Bruckner, August Kekulé, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Ivar Aasen, Frederic Leighton, Hippolyte Fizeau, William Morris, Otto Lilienthal, and John Everett Millais.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 2 out of 1,879. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707). After him are Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Tycho Brahe (1546), Anders Celsius (1701), Ingmar Bergman (1918), Svante Arrhenius (1859), and Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Arne Tiselius (1902), Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Georg Brandt (1694), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Per Teodor Cleve (1840).

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