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Lecture 03: The Biography of Mr. AB Nobel

Lecture 03: The Biography of Mr. AB Nobel. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY4NDI1Njc2.html http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY4NDc3ODgw.html. Alfred Bernhard Nobel Swedish chemists, industrialists, the inventor of dynamite, He founded the world-famous Nobel Prize with its huge legacy.

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Lecture 03: The Biography of Mr. AB Nobel

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  1. Lecture 03: The Biography of Mr. AB Nobel http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY4NDI1Njc2.html http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY4NDc3ODgw.html

  2. Alfred Bernhard Nobel Swedish chemists, industrialists, the inventor of dynamite, He founded the world-famous Nobel Prize with its huge legacy.

  3. Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. 1841 to 1842, he was in the Stockholm St. Jacobi church school for learning. • 1843-1850 in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg, learning from Russian and Swiss tutors. • 1850 to 1852, the Nobel went to European and American countries for a wide range of travel, learning, increase knowledge, broaden their horizons, only 16 years old, he had mastered English, German, French, Swiss, Swedish and Russian, for his future inventions laid a solid foundation.

  4. In October 1863, the Nobel explosives detonators agent invention patents. The invention known as the "Nobel Pilot Burner”. • In 1865, the Nobel nitroglycerine Co. Ltd., established in Stockholm, developed into solid toughness fuel in Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, and has a patent to obtain explosives. • Then, in 1888, and the invention of smokeless explosives used to make military artillery shells, grenades and ammunition, also known as the Nobel Blasting Explosives. • Nobel explosives to make a contribution, but also have some achievements in electrochemistry, optics, biology, physiology and literature. Nobel's life, invention patent applications in the UK alone there are as many as 355.

  5. Nobel is not only a great inventor, or an excellent organization to industrialists, he operated the explosives industry throughout Europe and the United States, but also with explosives patent shall purchase a large area of ​​oil fields, it rapidly becoming a millionaire. • However, he is not greedy for money and property of others, his generosity, his great assistance to the development of science, he was a frugal life, a lifetime spent in the hard way, only a portrait of his death before painting. • After his death, according to the desire of his lifetime, the tomb built very simple, he once said: "the life of the living than the dead honor and monuments worthy of my concern.

  6. Nobel's will • I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the following to be my last Will and Testament with respect to such property as may be left by me at the time of my death: • The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.

  7. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: • one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics; • one part to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement; • one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine; • one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction; and • one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

  8. The prizes for physics and chemistry shall be awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences; • that for physiological or medical work by the Caroline Institute in Stockholm; • that for literature by the Academy in Stockholm, • and that for champions of peace by a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting. • It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration whatever shall be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be a Scandinavian or not.

  9. This Will and Testament is up to now the only one valid, and revokes all my previous testamentary dispositions, should any such exist after my death. • Finally, it is my express wish that following my death my veins shall be opened, and when this has been done and competent Doctors have confirmed clear signs of death, my remains shall be cremated in a so-called crematorium. Paris, 27 November, 1895 Alfred Bernhard Nobel

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  11. Let us always cherish the memory to Mr. Nobel, Inherit his immortality quintessence of the thought !

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