Nobel Prize Research Paper
Nobel Prize
In this paper I am going to discuss the Nobel Prize. Firstly I will inform you of the history of the prize, secondly its origin, and how it is awarded today. After that I will discuss the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1901 Nobel Prize for Physics, and the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize was named after a Swedish inventor and industrialist, Alfred Bernhard Nobel. Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. He was born into a wealthy family, although due to the misfortune of losing building materials on sunken barges, Immanuel Nobel, Alfred’s father, was forced into bankruptcy the same year Alfred was born. In 1842 the family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. Alfred was then enrolled into first class education with private teachers. He learned natural science, literature, and language; by age 17 Alfred could speak fluent Swedish, Russian, French, English, and German. He fell primarily for English literature, poetry, chemistry, and physics. After traveling around Europe, he liked
Paris the best, he worked in a private laboratory of the famous Chemist, Professor T. J. Pelouze. There he met a young Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero, who three years earlier invented nitroglycerine, a highly explosive liquid. Alfred took a lot of interest into nitroglycerine and how it could be used in construction. After many experiments with his father, Immanuel became bankrupt again, forcing the family back to Stockholm. There Alfred concentrated on developing nitroglycerine as an explosive. After many accidental explosions which took the life of many people including his brother Emil, the authorities were convinced that nitroglycerine was too dangerous to be experimented with in Stockholm city limits. Alfred then moved out onto a barge in the middle of Lake Malaren, there he experimented with many different additives. He found an additive to turn nitroglycerine into a paste which could be put into different sized
In this paper I am going to discuss the Nobel Prize. Firstly I will inform you of the history of the prize, secondly its origin, and how it is awarded today. After that I will discuss the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1901 Nobel Prize for Physics, and the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize was named after a Swedish inventor and industrialist, Alfred Bernhard Nobel. Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. He was born into a wealthy family, although due to the misfortune of losing building materials on sunken barges, Immanuel Nobel, Alfred’s father, was forced into bankruptcy the same year Alfred was born. In 1842 the family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. Alfred was then enrolled into first class education with private teachers. He learned natural science, literature, and language; by age 17 Alfred could speak fluent Swedish, Russian, French, English, and German. He fell primarily for English literature, poetry, chemistry, and physics. After traveling around Europe, he liked
Paris the best, he worked in a private laboratory of the famous Chemist, Professor T. J. Pelouze. There he met a young Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero, who three years earlier invented nitroglycerine, a highly explosive liquid. Alfred took a lot of interest into nitroglycerine and how it could be used in construction. After many experiments with his father, Immanuel became bankrupt again, forcing the family back to Stockholm. There Alfred concentrated on developing nitroglycerine as an explosive. After many accidental explosions which took the life of many people including his brother Emil, the authorities were convinced that nitroglycerine was too dangerous to be experimented with in Stockholm city limits. Alfred then moved out onto a barge in the middle of Lake Malaren, there he experimented with many different additives. He found an additive to turn nitroglycerine into a paste which could be put into different sized
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