Alfred Nobel

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

Born in Stockholm in 1833 of Swedish parents, Alfred Nobel 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 countries and
ultimately came to regard himself as a citizen of the world. Even so, he never
gave up his Swedish citizenship.

By virtue of the education he received in many countries, Nobel read, spoke and
wrote fluently in five European languages: Swedish, Russian, English, French and
German. His numerous handwritten letters demonstrate his remarkable proficiency
in all of them. He perfected his French when sent to Paris by his father in his
late teens to study chemistry. His letters in French are particularly elegant.
Those in English sometimes bear traces of the early nineteenth-century style
generally associated with Byron and Shelley (his two favourite poets) and are
remarkably 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.

Throughout his life he suffered from poor health and often took cures at
watering places, “less to drink the water than to rest.” But he expected great
improvements in medicine, and the profession has since realized many of them.
Once he employed a young Swedish physiologist in Paris to test his own theories
on blood transfusions. Although these efforts were not successful, problems
related to transfusions were later solved by an Austrian, Karl Landsteiner, who
won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Prize in Literature, too, reflects the donor's personal predilections.
From his early youth he had been a writer as well as an avid reader, but he
later destroyed many of his adolescent poems written in Swedish. He did, however,
save a long autobiographical poem in English and occasionally gave copies of it
to intimate friends. He was always an omnivorous reader of books in all the
languages he knew. What he meant by the stipulation in his will of an “
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