1, People call Alfred Nobel a man of peace.

2, Alfred Nobel was a leading inventor of his day.

3, After his return to Sweden in 1863, Alfred Nobel concentrated on developing nitroglycerine as an explosive.

4, The Nobel Prize was founded by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

5, Since Alfred Nobel died in 1896 we have entered an age of storm and tragedy.

6, Alfred Nobel invented his explosive at a perfect moment in time.

7, Surely an eminent man of science such as Alfred Nobel could not simply have forgotten about mathematics,[http:///alfred nobel.html] so he must have had a good reason for omitting it.

8, Alfred Nobel , the Swedish inventor and industrialist , was a man of many contrasts.

9, To make the handling of nitroglycerine safer Alfred Nobel experimented with different additives.

10, The winners receive their awards on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel.

11, The same man who gave us dynamite gave us the Nobel Peace Prize, an irony that was surely not lost on the pacifistic Alfred Nobel himself.