This man's father Immanuel invented a rotary lathe used to manufacture plywood as well as an underwater mine that interested Nicholas I. He wrote a play about a murderous Italian noblewoman titled Nemesis.
This man's father Immanuel invented a rotary lathe used to manufacture plywood as well as an underwater mine that interested Nicholas I. He wrote a play about a murderous Italian noblewoman titled Nemesis. This man kept up a correspondence with Baroness Bertha von Suttner, who is believed to have pushed him to promote pacifism. The French government accused him of treason for selling his invention of ballistite to the Italians. This man acquired the company Bofors in 1894. The line "the merchant of death is dead" was part of this man's premature obituary which he himself read in 1888; that obituary chastised him for inventing dynamite. For 10 points, what Swede names a series of prizes that reward scientific or cultural achievements?
This man's father Immanuel invented a rotary lathe used to manufacture plywood as well as an underwater mine that interested Nicholas I. He wrote a play about a murderous Italian noblewoman titled Nemesis.
Alfred Nobel [or Robert, Ludvig, or Emil Nobel until "Nemesis"]