Alfred Nobel

  • Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm.

  • Following various business failures, Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg

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    Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, the Jacobs Apologistic School in Stockholm

  • Nobels family joins his father in the city

  • Nobel filed his first patent, for a gas meter

  • Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel

  • Nobel invented a detonator

  • Nobel designed the blasting cap

  • Alfred travels to paris

  • Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary

  • Nobel's third and longest-lasting relationship was with Sofie Hess who was from Vienna

  • obel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  • following the death of his mother and his brother Ludvig and the end of a long standing relationship, Nobel moved from Paris

  • he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University

  • Suffering from angina, Nobel died at home, of a cerebral haemorrhage

  • Nobels Letters were released from a locked vault