CHEMIST

Alfred Nobel

1833 - 1896

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( noh-BEL, Swedish: [ˈǎlfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː] ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Nobel has received more than 7,073,790 page views. His biography is available in 156 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Alfred Nobel is the most popular chemist (up from 2nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Chemist.

Alfred Nobel is most famous for inventing dynamite.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alfred Nobel ranks 1 out of 602. After him are Louis Pasteur, Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Harrison, Wilhelm Dilthey, Alexander Borodin, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Élie Ducommun, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Alfred von Schlieffen, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Edwin Booth, and Félicien Rops. Among people deceased in 1896, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Paul Verlaine, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, August Kekulé, William Morris, Ivar Aasen, Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, José Rizal, and John Everett Millais.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 2 out of 1,879. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707). After him are Ingmar Bergman (1918), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Anders Celsius (1701), Tycho Brahe (1546), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), August Strindberg (1849), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), and Charles XII of Sweden (1682).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Arne Tiselius (1902), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Georg Brandt (1694).

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