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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He made a fortune but lived a simple life, he was cheerful in company but often sad when remained alone. A lover of mankind, he never had a family or wife to love him. He was a patriotic son of his native land and he died alone in a foreign country.

He invented dynamite ['daɪnəmaɪt], to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but he saw it used as a weapon of war to kill and injure people. During his useful life he often felt he was useless. World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. But since his death his name has brought fame and glory to others.

He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833 but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Most of the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred rejoined them in 1863, beginning his own study of explosives in his father’s laboratory.

He had never been to school or university but had studied privately and by the time he was twenty he had been a skillful chemist and an excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French, Italian and English.

Like his father, Alfred Nobel was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. But Nobel was never really concerned about making money or even making scientific discoveries. In his youth he had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy. He was always generous to the poor. His greatest wish was to see an end of wars and thus peace between nations.

In his famous will he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology and Medicine, Literature and Peace. Since Nobel's death many outstanding scientists, writers and public figures from different countries have become Nobel Prize winners.

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Make up questions.

1. Alfred Nobel was the great Swedish inventor and industrialist. (Who)

2. Alfred Nobel was a man of many contrasts. (Why)

3. He invented dynamite to improve the peacetime industries of road mining and road building. (What)

4. Dynamite was used as a weapon of war to kill and injure people. (How)

5. During his useful life he often felt he was useless. (How)

6. Throughout his life he avoided publicity. (What)

7. He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833(Where, When)

8. He moved to Russia with his parents in 1842. (Where, Why)

9. Alfred rejoined his family in 1863 and began his own study of explosives in his father’s laboratory. (What)

10. He had never been to school or university but had studied privately. (How)

11. By the time he was twenty he had been a skillful chemist and an excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French, Italian and English. (General question)

12. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. (How many)

13. Nobel was never really concerned about making money or even making scientific discoveries. (General question)

14. In his youth he had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy. (What interest)

15. He was always generous to the poor. (General question)

16. His greatest wish was to see an end of wars and thus peace between nations. (What)

17. His famous will he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology and Medicine, Literature and Peace. (What … for)

18. Since Nobel's death many outstanding scientists, writers and public figures from different countries have become Nobel Prize winners. (Who)

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