Alfred Nobel
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Born in Stockholm in 1833 of Swedish parents, moved with his family
to St. Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, at the age of nine. There his
energetic and inventive father soon acquired a strong and respected position as
an inventor and industrialist. Nobel subsequently lived in several countr ....
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.... free of grammatical and idiomatic errors. To his mother he always
wrote in Swedish, which is also the language of the will he composed in Paris.
The fields embraced by the prizes stipulated by the will reflect Nobel's
personal interests. While he provided no prizes for architects, artists,
composers or social scientists, he was generous to those working in physics,
chemistry, physiology and medicine—the subjects he knew best himself, and in
which he expected the greatest advances.
Throughou ....
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