Founders

Alfred Bernhard Nobel is a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and gunsmith known as the inventor of dynamite. He was the owner of Bofors Arms Factory from 1894 until his death and was instrumental in transforming it from an iron smelter to a modern gunnery and chemical factory.

The life story of "Alfred Nobel" is the story of a depressed factory owner who invents dynamite but is warned halfway and spends her capital to establish the most important world prize in the fields of literature, economics, medicine, physics, chemistry and peace