Chapter 484: A Poetic Scientist
I have to say that Nobel's love life is a tragedy.
However, his personal life and interests are very extensive......
It should be mentioned here that Nobel's father, Emmanuel Nobel, was an inventor who invented the boiler system for domestic heating, designed a machine for making wooden wheels, designed and built a large forging hammer, and modified factory equipment.
In 1853, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia awarded Emmanuel Nobel an exceptional medal in recognition of his achievements.
Emmanuel Nobel was a man of great interest in inventions, and Nobel's mother, Lorence Andrita Arcel, was a strong-willed and hard-working character, and the couple had a great influence on Nobel's life.
Nobel had a long-standing love for literature and wrote some poems in English in his youth.
Later generations also found the beginning of one of the works he wrote in his posthumous manuscripts. What is less known is that Nobel was also a playwright, but it was not until he was dying that his only play was copied.
Unfortunately, his works were considered "slanderous and blasphemous", and almost all of them were destroyed after Nobel's death, and only three survived.
It was not until 2003 that the first surviving edition was published in Sweden. With the exception of Esperanto, the play has not yet been translated into other languages, including English.
In his later years, he began to write, "In the Brightest Africa" (1861) and "Sisters" (1862), both of which expressed his views on social reform, and in 1895, the comedy "Patents for the Invention of Bacilli", which was critical of reality and full of sarcasm and irony.
His only officially published theatrical work was The Goddess of Vengeance, written in 1895.
Nobel was deeply influenced by the English poet Shelley when he was a teenager, and because of this, he had the "Shelley dream" of wanting to be a poet. As an adult, Nobel's love of literature was as consistent as his love of science, although he had little spare time due to his busy schedule of technical inventions and business development.
It can be said that literature and science are the two spiritual pillars of Nobel.
Nobel not only loved to read literature, but also tried to create it. He has written poems, and "A Riddle" is one of his long autobiographical poems.
Nobel also liked philosophy closely related to literature, and for the famous European and American philosophers of the time, he preferred the positivist philosophy of the British philosopher Spencer. In philosophy, he has made a list of theses and outlines that he intends to write.
He has dabbled in science, literature, and philosophy, and can be described as a man of many talents.
Well, to be honest, it's only in the field of science that his achievements are the greatest.
In October 1863, Nobel obtained an invention patent for explosives. This invention is known as the "Nobel Igniter".
In 1864, he obtained a patent for the invention of nitroglycerin explosives.
In 1865, he experimented and studied repeatedly to develop a solid ductile fuel, and successively obtained patents for explosives in Sweden, Britain and the United States.
In 1866, the "diatomite explosive" was manufactured to absorb nitroglycerin, which was three times more than itself and was as soft and hard as clay, and this product became the cornerstone of the Nobel International Industrial Group.
In 1867, the safety detonator detonator was invented.
In 1888, smokeless explosives, also known as Nobel blasting explosives, were invented to make military shells, grenades, and ammunition.
In 1896, he obtained a patent for a glass press nozzle with fine holes, and the invention also had a considerable impact on the textile industry.
Nobel not only made contributions to explosives, but also made certain contributions in electrochemistry, optics, biology, physiology and literature. During his lifetime, Nobel applied for 355 invention patents in the United Kingdom alone.
In addition to explosives, Nobel has made theoretical and practical achievements in the use of nitroglycerin fuses, silent guns, hardening, welding, and welding of metals, as well as the stabilization of bullets, the extreme safety of seabed equipment using gas, and the use of rockets to rescue shipwrecked ships.
He has experimented with artificial rubber, artificial leather, nitrocellulose-based lacquer or dyes, and artificial gemstones.
The ceremony is held every year on the anniversary of Nobel's death. During the ceremony, men wore tuxedos or national costumes, women wore solemn evening dresses, and the white and yellow flowers used in the ceremony had to be brought from San More, Italy.
On June 8, 2011, the artificial element Nobelium was named after Nobelium.
In March 2015, the Nobel Museum in Sweden exhibited the manuscript of inventor Alfred Nobel's testament, which was the first time that the manuscript was exhibited to the public.
During his lifetime, Nobel had 355 patented inventions and opened about 100 companies and factories in 20 countries on five continents, including Europe and the United States, and amassed a huge fortune. The Nobel Prize is awarded to people in countries around the world who have made significant contributions to humanity in these fields.
After Nobel's suicide note in 1895 was made public, it caused heated debate. Some criticized Nobel as a Swede and gave Swedish property to people from all over the world, which was unpatriotic, and some questioned that the selection could be bribed and unable to accomplish the task.
It was also argued that it was doubtful that the Norwegian parliamentarians' organizing committee would award the Peace Prize to the Norwegian Parliamentarians, and that the will would have a de facto non-existent foundation as its heir, and that its large estates were scattered across countries and governed by completely different laws, and that the main executor of the will, Laguna Sorumman, mobilized financial, scientific and legal experts from various countries to clean up the estate and resolve disputes.
After several years of hard work, with the support of Nobel's second brother, the Lyudubek family, the Nobel Foundation was established, and on June 29, 1900, the Swedish government approved the articles of association of the foundation, as well as various matters concerning the awarding of awards by various Swedish institutions.
In a word......
Nobel devoted his life to the practical popularization of scientific inventions, and after his death, he donated all his wealth to establish the world-famous Nobel Prize, which is worthy of admiration.
In addition, Nobel was a man of science and an enthusiastic reader with literary ambitions.
Nobel is a typical 19th-century inventor of great genius, and his invention seems to have come more from his keen intuition and extraordinary creativity.
Nobel not only devoted his whole life to the cause of science, but also left a will after his death, dedicating all his legacy to the cause of science, and his name, together with the achievements of mankind in scientific exploration, will forever remain in the annals of civilization in the development of human society.
Nobel was not insatiable for money and possessions, he was generous to others and greatly assisted in the development of science, but he himself lived a frugal life and spent his life in hardship. He has created a large amount of material civilization wealth for mankind, and left mankind with the spirit of hard work, not admiring utilitarianism and vanity.
Nobel was not a man of words, a lone lover of loneliness, and a cringe of flinching, so he was regarded by the general public as the inventor of the tools of war and destruction.
He was a thinker, a utopian poet and dreamer, with a keen sense of insight and an indomitable spirit, but he also hated war and was concerned about the diversion of explosives to military use.
In conclusion, there is a rather significant antithesis in his character.
He always maintained the attitude of a poet in life.