Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 - 10 December 1896) (Alfred Nobel) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is known for inventing dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. He also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Nobel's most famous invention was dynamite, an explosive using nitroglycerin; it was patented in 1867.
The German film title of Eine Liebe für den Frieden - Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel (2014) translated means "A Love for Peace---Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel."
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner née Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (9 June 1843 - 21 June 1914). Bertha von Suttner was an Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate.
Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that Von Suttner was a major influence on his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will. Bertha von Suttner was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in the fifth term on 10 December 1905, together with her comrade, the legal scholar Tobias Asser (1838-1913) for their help in developing an international order based on peace rather than war. The presentation took place on 18 April 1906 in Kristiania (Oslo, Norway).
Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that Von Suttner was a major influence on his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will. Bertha von Suttner was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in the fifth term on 10 December 1905, together with her comrade, the legal scholar Tobias Asser (1838-1913) for their help in developing an international order based on peace rather than war. The presentation took place on 18 April 1906 in Kristiania (Oslo, Norway).
EPILOGUE: "Bertha von Suttner died 8 days after the outbreak of WWI. She outlived Alfred Nobel by 18 years and became known as Peace-Bertha. She was never so happy as during the years of this special friendship....which left such a unique legacy: the Nobel Prize."