And the Nobel Prize for best podcast about The Nobel Prize and its founder Alfred Nobel goes... to this episode. Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel's most famous creation was dynamite. It made him incredibly rich, but also controversial due to the people that dynamite and his weapons factories killed. When considering his post death legacy, he decided to pull off the greatest rebrand in history and donate his enormous fortune to found a set of prizes in his honour. This is the history of the Nobel Prizes.

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

http://theconversation.com/the-curious-history-of-the-nobel-peace-prize-66609
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nobel-Prize
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/12-surprising-facts-about-nobel-prizes/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-peace-prize/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nobel_alfred.shtml
https://www.biography.com/inventor/alfred-nobel
https://www.livescience.com/16379-10-noblest-nobel-prize-winners-time.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/nobel-prize-facts-secrets-history-science/
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2017/december/nobel-fun-facts.html
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