From Wikipedia:
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (
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info) (
Stockholm,
Sweden, 21 October 1833 –
Sanremo,
Italy, 10 December 1896) was a
Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the
inventor of
dynamite. He owned
Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the
Nobel Prizes. The
synthetic element nobelium was named after him.
Dynamite and machine guns, now there is a guy that knows all about peace!
He also invented detonators.