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The founder of the Nobel Prize invented dynamite
Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, held 355 patents.
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He worked as a chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. In his will, signed in Paris in 1895, he left 31 million Swedish kronor to fund the prizes.
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