Nobel term itself comes from the name of a famous businessman who really love peace and science. He was Alfred Nobel, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833, Alfred born from educated families. His father was Immanuel Nobel was an engineering undergraduate who is an expert in building and design. Immanuel in the know have great works of old buildings and bridges in Sweden. As a technician, he was known to be a hobby perform various experiments. While his mother, Andriette Ahlsell, though only a housewife, but she comes from a wealthy family. When Alfred Nobel was born, Immanuel business began to deteriorate. Even wealthy families had a chance to go bankrupt. They left Sweden to try his fortune to Finland and Russia. To finance the family life, Andriette opened a grocery store business. Unsuspected Andriette established business has been able to create the Nobel family established the workshop techniques to improve a number of Russian and British military vehicles.After successfully establishing the machinery industry, the family and then develop the business to various countries in Europe. Three children were given a quality education. At age 17, Alfred Nobel had mastered many foreign languages, including Swedish, Russian, French, English and German. In addition to lessons like chemistry and physics. Day morning to spend a lot on research in the laboratory. Together with an Italian researcher, Alfred found nitroglycerine, a substance that can explode with great force. In 1852 he was called upon to lead the family business in Sweden. In his spare time Alfred continue to concentrate revealed the secret behind the substance nitroglycerine, until finally he managed to make dinamite although in that study had been an explosion in the laboratory that led to his death. This discovery is helpful in breaking the world mining industry and the mountain land that contain minerals. Since then sales of dynamite Alfred grow the business. His business continued to grow until his name famous in the world as Mr. Dynamite. He started a number of industries nitroglycerine in various European countries, including in Hamburg, Germany is exporting explosives to Australia and America. Not only in the field of explosives, Alfred also has businesses in the sector of rubber and leather industries. He belonged to the wealthiest conglomerate in Europe and every year he always gave great rewards to employees who excel in the field of research. Alfred died on December 10, 1896 in Rome, Italy. Until the day he died, Alfred has discovered 355 kinds of scientific work patented. Alfred Nobel had been chosen to be an important figure in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884. As a form of memory of Alfred Nobel glory as long as he lives to support the creation of peace in many regions of Europe, the Norwegian parliament in dedicating the award to the researchers of chemistry, physics, economics and world-renowned Martial Arts. The mission gave the award is presented Alfred Nobel's will before he died. Two close friend of Alfred's mandate to establish the Nobel Foundation which will further give prizes to the outstanding figure in the field of Science and Peace. The award was started in 1901. Each winner will receive Gold Medalist and award certificates and money are not small. For winning the award for peace will get a reward of about U.S. $ 1.3 million, money to fund this award from the Alfred stored in a Swiss bank. The purpose of the Nobel Foundation gave the award was none other than to promote the culture of creation among young researchers without any need to worry about financial resources. In addition to a very large cash prize nobel winner will usually be a famous figure in the world. According to Alfred Nobel's will. There are five categories of researchers who deserve the award, ie Physics, Chemistry, Medical and Literature. While the economics award is given along with Alfred Nobel's contribution to the Swedish State Bank on 100th birthday in 1969.
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