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🙏🌹 *Mistaken Obituary which led to the creation of Nobel Prize...* 🌹🙏
How a mistaken obituary led to the creation/ institution of Nobel Prize!!!
Very interesting real life incident... 🤔
Can you imagine reading your own obituary in the newspaper ?? What would
people say about you ??
Alfred Nobel got the chance to read his own death notice, and he didn’t
like at all what he saw...
Alfred Nobel was a very wealthy and successful man. He had become an expert
in chemistry and invented three of the most commonly used explosives in the
world - dynamite, gelignite (used in mining) and ballistite, which is still
used as a rocket propellant today.
With the huge fortune he made from these inventions, Nobel bought an
engineering company called Bofors and turned it into an arms manufacturer.
He made another enormous fortune designing cannons and guns and selling
them around the world.
Then, in 1888, Alfred’s brother died while visiting France.
A French newspaper thought it was Alfred who had died and they published an
obituary that began like this: *THE MERCHANT OF DEATH IS DEAD. Dr. Alfred
Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever
before, died yesterday….*
Alfred Nobel was shocked. Was this what people thought of him? Was this the
legacy he would leave to the world?
That’s when he decided to use his vast wealth to make a positive
difference. Nobel set up a foundation with $250 million dollars in funding.
Every year the foundation would consult the leading experts in the world
and hand out prizes to people who had made great contributions to humanity.
There would be prizes for sciences, for literature, and for promoting peace.
Today the Nobel Prizes are probably the best known and most prestigious
awards in the world. They have been awarded to great scientists, authors
and activists and helped draw attention to many outstanding works and
worthy causes.
🏅🎖🎖🏅
Nobel set up his foundation in 1895: just in time to influence his own
obituary. He died only a year later. The Nobel Prizes accomplished his
wish; they created a very different legacy for him than a reputation as
*The Merchant of Death.*
*He is not remembered as an explosives inventor or arms dealer, but as one
of the greatest philanthropists of all time. He is also a great example of
how it is never too late to change your life and help make the world a
better place.*
That is the story of *Alfred Nobel* and the legacy of *Nobel Prizes*.
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