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Immanuel Nobel
(1801–1872)
BIRTH
March 24, 1801
PLACE
Gävle, Sweden
DEATH
September 3, 1872
PLACE
Heleneborg, Stockholm, Sweden
FAMILY
CHILDREN
Alfred Nobel
(1833-1896)
HOMES
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Immanuel Nobel was a Swedish engineer, inventor and entrepreneur and the father of Alfred Nobel. His mechanical workshops and experiments with explosives shaped Alfred’s early environment.
EARLY LIFE
Following bankruptcy in Stockholm, he established a workshop in St Petersburg that supplied Russian military needs. He later returned to Sweden and worked on nitroglycerin experiments with Alfred.
CAREER
DEATH
The Nobel Foundation’s timeline dates his death to 1872; the cited account does not specify a medical cause.
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