October 21: Religion and the Nobel Prizes

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Alfred Nobel (1833) It was on this date, October 21, 1833, that Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm. It is one of the ironies of his life that a man who made his fortune in the invention…

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