Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel [nɔˈbɛl ] pronunciation^{? /i} (* October 21, 1833 in Stockholm; † December 10, 1896 in Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist and inventor. He was granted a total of 355 patents.

Nobel is the inventor of dynamite and the founder and namesake of the Nobel Prize. The chemical element Nobelium was named after him. The plant genus Nobeliodendron O.C.Schmidt from the laurel family (Lauraceae) is also named after him.

Museums

• Nobel Museum (Swedish: Nobelmuseet) in StockholmThe
  Swedish Nobel Museum is dedicated to the Nobel Prize and Nobel Prize winners from 1901 to the present and the life of Alfred Nobel. The museum is located in the former building of the Stockholm Stock Exchange in the old town of Stockholm (Stortorget square). The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy are also located in the same building.
• Nobel Museum Björkborn (Swedish: Nobelmuseet i Karlskoga) in KarlskogaAlfred
  Nobel spent the last three and a half years of his life at "Björkborns herrgård" near Karlskoga. In addition to the almost completely original house furnishings, there is Nobel's laboratory and an exhibition of products from the armaments company Bofors. The fact that he had horses and domestic servants in Björkborn - ergo his main residence - played the decisive role in the inheritance dispute, as his relatives sued in a French court (near Paris Nobel owned a house he had lived in much longer than the one in Karlskoga) against the transfer of his fortune to a foundation. It is thanks to Nobel's collaborator Ragnar Solman that the foundation could be realized at all, as Nobel had intended. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to Ragnar Solman.
• Nobel Peace Centre (Norwegian: Nobels Fredssenter) in OsloThe
  Nobel Peace Centre provides information about the Nobel Peace Prize, the laureates and their work, as well as about current conflict hotspots in the world and the commitment to peace. The foundation was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2000 on the occasion of the celebrations of Norway's 100 years of international sovereignty and opened on 11 June 2005.
• Villa Nobel in SanremoThe
  Villa Nobel was the last residence and the place of death of Alfred Nobel. The villa houses a museum dedicated to the life and work of Alfred Nobel and the scientific environment of the 19th century. A large space is also devoted to the Nobel Prizes, with special emphasis on the Italian Nobel Laureates.

Villa Nobel in Sanremo


Nobel Museum in Stockholm

Movies

• Dynamite, the Story of Alfred Nobel, English feature film by Alfred Cleary with Wesley Addy as Nobel and Osa Massen as Bertha von Suttner, 1954
• Heart of the World, German feature film with Mathias Wieman as Alfred Nobel and Hilde Krahl as Bertha von Suttner, 1952
• Alfred Nobel - The Wages of Terror. Docu-drama, 45 min., Production: ZDF, First broadcast: October 15, 2006
• A Love for Peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel Biopic, Production: ORF, First broadcast: 2014

Alfred Nobels death mask