Alfred Nobel
Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:12:00 PM
Bio: Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist. Alfred Nobel was the third son of Immanuel Nobel and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel Born in Stockholm. Alfred studied chemistry with Professor Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin. Alfred, returning to Sweden with his father after the bankruptcy of their family business, devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine. Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with various nitrocellulose compounds, similar to collodion, but settled on a more efficient recipe combining another nitrate explosive, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite. He died of a stroke at Sanremo, Italy.










