Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( 21 October 1833
– 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist,
engineer,innovator,and armaments manufacturer.He was the inventor of
dynamite.Nobel
also owned Bofors,which he
had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to
a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments.Nobel held 350 different
patents,dynamite being the most famous.He used his fortune to posthumously
institute the Nobel Prizes.The
synthetic element nobelium was
named after him.His name also survives in modern-day companies such as
Dynamit Nobel and
Akzo
Nobel,which are descendants of the
companies Nobel himself established.