Alfred Bernhard Nobel is the man behind the Nobel Prizes He was an engineer. He was an inventor and a poet. He was born in Stockholm in 1833. He left Stockholm at the age of nine. His family moved to Russia He was educated by private tutors. He studied chemical engineering. He studied languages and literature iki He studied in the United States and France.He returned to Sweden in 1852. He returned with his brother Emil. They worked in their father's factory. The factory was an explosives factory. An explosion in the factory killed Emil in 1864. Alfred was deeply affected. He wanted to invent a safer explosive. He invented one in 1867. He called it dynamite He started to set up dynamite factories. He founded factories in many parts of the world. Alfred made a fortune. He died in 1896. He left $9 million. He left the money to set up yearly prizes for science, literature, and world peace. The prizes are called the Nobel Prizes.