Thursday, April 30, 2009

More research on Alfred Nobel

Images of his lab: from google images






• Sir Kantha has suggested that ' the one personal trait of Nobel that helped him to sharpen his creativity include his talent for
• He had information access, via his multi-lingual skills.
• six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.
• He also developed literary skills to write poetry in English.' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.
• Alfred Nobel did not like people, but he loved humanity, for which he felt a deep responsibility.

• Alfred Nobel was of a type not at all rare among great introverts; he did not like people, but he loved humanity, for which he felt a deep responsibility.
• Alfred Nobel was a very wise man by endowing what he considered as pursuits of eternal values; science, pure and applied, idealistic literature, peace.

His personality and idea

• Nobel invented the dynamite in order to help humanity to control the nature (remove obstacles, cut down hills, and explode rocks) .
• When he saw what damage the dynamite had caused in the world, he decided to donate his money to make the world a better place. He put the money in a fund and with its earnings he set the Nobel Prize that is awarded yearly to people whose work helps humanity.
• He thought that if he will establish this prize people could be encouraged to donate positively to the world.

Sources
• http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/gabor-speech.html
• http://www.answers.com/topic/alfred-nobel
• http://movers-and-shakers.wikispaces.com/Alferd+Nobel

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