There are few biographical contradictions as clean or as consequential as Alfred Nobel's. The man who invented dynamite, held over 350 patents, and built a fortune supplying explosives to armies ...
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Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other powerful explosives. In 1888, a French newspaper mistakenly reported Alfred's death, writing, "The ...