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Physiology or Medicine Location Solna within the Stockholm urban
area Presented by Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet First
awarded 1901 Official website       Alfred Nobel was born on 21
October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden into a family of engineers.[2]
He was a chemist, engineer and inventor who amassed a fortune
during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions of which
dynamite is the most famous.[3] He was interested in
experimental physiology and set up his own labs in France and
Italy to conduct experiments in blood transfusions. Keeping
abreast of scientific findings, he was generous in his donations
to Ivan Pavlov's laboratory in Russia, and was optimistic about
the progress resulting from scientific discoveries made in
laboratories.[4]  In 1888, Nobel was surprised to read his own
obituary, titled ‘The merchant of death is dead’, in a French
newspaper. As it happened,