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Nobel Prizes in Sciences are awarded every year to at the most three distinguished scientists in the fields of Chemistry, Physics and Physiology each. There are also separate Nobel Prizes for Literature, Economics and Peace.

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Did Alfred Nobel collect his wealth by selling dynamite?

I too was told this story, by my father as we drove through Nobel, Ontario. While the main purpose of dynamite may never have been warfare, it most certainly was used for that purpose during his lifet …
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