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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 Prize. He also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Nobel has received more than 6,490,351 page views. His biography is available in 149 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 141 in 2019). Alfred Nobel is the 2nd most popular chemist, the most popular biography from Sweden (up from 2nd 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 2 out of 509Before him are Louis Pasteur. After him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Robert Boyle, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Svante Arrhenius, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 1 out of 1,612After him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Tycho Brahe (1546), Anders Celsius (1701), Ingmar Bergman (1918), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Olof Palme (1927), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), and Ingvar Kamprad (1926).

Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 1After him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Arne Tiselius (1902), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Sune Bergström (1916), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), and Torbern Bergman (1735).