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The scientist Alfred Nobel, after whom the Nobel Prize is so called, was born in Stockholm in 1833.
At 4 years old, however, his father, an engineer, moved to St.
Petersburg to work in an explosives manufacturing factory.
When Alfred was 9, he and his family moved out to join him.
When he was young, Nobel helped work in his father’s factory.
There, he developed an interested in explosives and wanted to study how they work.
The new job also allowed Nobel’s family to hire tutors for their children.
With his private tutors, Alfred learned four languages in addition to his native Swedish, and became very good at Chemistry.
His studies eventually took him to spend a year in Paris at age 18 and then 4 years in the United States.
After his education, he moved back to St.
Petersburg to work again in his father’s manufacturing factory to assist the military during the Crimean War. After the war ended, Al
