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Nobel and nitro, a dynamite story

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By: Jem Stansfield (Guest), Professor Seymour Mauskopf (Guest)
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Explore Nobel's development of dynamite and how a journalistic error was the probable catalyst in his foundation of The Nobel Prizes.

12 Oct
2010
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Alfred Nobel, tortured soul, chemist and ambitious businessman. His family set up a huge explosives factory, and made a fortune selling to the civil engineering industry. But it's dangerous business and Alfred's younger brother was killed in a nitroglycerin explosion, however, it was the death of his older brother that may, unpredictably, have led to him setting up The Nobel Prizes.

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Jem Stansfield (Guest)

Jem Stansfield has a degree in aeronautics and a background in building interesting things for curious programmes and films.

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Professor Seymour Mauskopf (Guest)

Seymour Mauskopf is professor and director, Focus Interdisc Programs at Duke University.

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