Alfred Nobel Timeline
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Alfred Nobel Timeline
Timeline Description: Alfred Nobel was the founder of the Nobel Prize. He invented dynamite, and it was his goal later in life to award monumental discoveries. This is a timeline of his life.
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Alfred was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1850
Alfred travels abroad
Alfred moved to Paris, and then traveled to Germany and America. He used this time to study.
1856
The Nobel family factory goes bankrupt
Alfred's father owned a factory in Russia, but after the Crimean Wars he went bankrupt. Alfred began working with nitroglycerin in order to help his father's factory.
1863
Alfred applied for patents for his work with nitroglycerin.
1864
While working on nitroglycerin with Alfred, his brother was killed.
1866
Dynamite is born
Alfred moved to the United States and continued his work with nitroglycerin. He discovered that it became safer with added elements, and the result was dynamite.
1867
Alfred Nobel applied for a patent for his new discovery.
1873
They open a dynamite plant
Alfred returned to Europe where he started the first of several factories. They manufactured dynamite.
1887
Alfred discovered a new element that could be used for blasting. It was called ballistite.
1888
Alfred looks at change
Another of Alfred's brothers died, but the newspaper accidentally published that it was Alfred and they weren't kind about him, and said that dynamite killed many people. Alfred wanted to change his legacy.
1891
Alfred stops inventing and moves away
Alfred had a disagreement with the French government and moved to Italy, where he stopped his experimentations.
1895
Alfred thinks up the Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel made a Will, and he set aside most of his money to establish the Nobel Prizes which would award those who made great discoveries.
1896
Alfred Nobel died at the age of 63.
1900
The Nobel medals
The Nobel Prize committee decided to give a medal to the winner of each Nobel Prize. Prizes are awarded for science, peace, medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature.
2012