Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a chemical Swedish inventor of dynamite, who became rich thanks to its steelworks and arms production. At his death in 1896, were instituted the prizes that bear his name with part of that fortune, bequeathed as a last wish to do so. His surname was originally Nobelius, but by fashion ever Latino terminations of names, keeping the stress were eliminated. That is why the word is acute.
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