Alfred Nobel.pptx
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel– scientist, author and pacifist, the inventor of dynamite and holder of 355 patents – shaped as a human being in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Russian capital where different nationalities and cultures mixed and where science and literature developed in a dynamic interaction between Western European tradition and the aspirations of the Russian intelligentsia.
1833 Alfred Nobel is born in Stockholm, Sweden. In the same year, his father Immanuel Nobel goes bankrupt.
1837 Immanuel Nobel travels to Finland then to St Petersburg, Russia, where he starts a mechanical workshop; he leaves his family behind in Sweden. 1842 The Nobel family is reunited in St Petersburg.
1850 -1852 Alfred Nobel goes to Paris and works for one year in the laboratory of T. Jules Pelouze. He also travels to Italy, Germany and the United States (US).
1853 -1856 The Crimean War rages. The Nobel Company flourishes at first, but goes bankrupt as the war ends and the Russian military cancels orders. Alfred Nobel searches desperately for new products. Nikolai N. Zinin, Nobel's chemistry teacher, reminds him of nitroglycerin. 1862 Alfred Nobel starts his experiments with nitroglycerin.
1863 Nobel obtains the first patent on nitroglycerin (blasting oil) as an industrial explosive. He develops and patents a detonator (blasting cap) for triggering the explosion of nitroglycerin. He also moves to Stockholm, where he continues his experiments.
1867 Alfred Nobel obtains a patent for dynamite. 1871 Nobel establishes the British Dynamite Company (Ardeer, Scotland, UK). In 1877 the company name is changed to Nobel's Explosives Company
1873 At the age of 40 Alfred Nobel is a wealthy man. He moves to Paris and settles at Avenue Malakoff. 1887 Nobel obtains a patent for the blasting powder "ballistite" in France. 1891 Alfred Nobel leaves Paris and settles in San Remo, Italy, after a dispute with the French government over ballistite.
1896 Alfred Nobel dies at his home in San Remo, Italy, on 10 December 1896.
Alfred Nobel.pptx