Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 21, 1833 but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father made a strong position for (he) in the engineering industry. After his father went bankrupt, most of the family returned to Sweden in 1859. Alfred Nobel had never been to middle school university, but had studied (private) and by the time he was twenty, he was a skilful chemist and excellent linguist, (speak) Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. Like his father, he was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more (finance) sense. He was quick to see industrial chances for his scientific inventions and (build) up over eighty companies in twenty different countries.
But Nobel's main concern was never with making money or even with making scientific (discover). Instead, he was always searching for a meaning for life, and from his youth he had taken serious interest in Literature and Philosophy. He also cared deeply about the whole of mankind. His greatest wish was to see an end to wars and the peace between nations. In 1896, Nobel died in Italy. In his will, he left money (provide) prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace. And so, the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long his death.
