Alfred Nobel
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We all associate peace with the Nobel prize, but did you know that Alfred Nobel actually invented dynamite? He was also a great chemist, engineer, innovator and a manufacturer of armaments. So how did the Nobel Peace Prize come about? Get inside the mind of this amazing individual and discover what drove him, what changed his ways of thinking and how he came to see things differently, and consequently changed the world.
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