Swedish inventor and entrepreneur who invented dynamite — holding 355 patents — accumulated an enormous fortune, and established the Nobel Prize with his will in response to a premature obituary that called him 'the merchant of death.'
Invented dynamite as a safe form of nitroglycerin — making it commercially viable for mining and construction — and accumulated the fortune that funds the Nobel Prizes, making him the rare inventor whose commercial success permanently endowed the world's most prestigious scientific recognition.
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