Emil Oskar Nobel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Alfred Nobel's Brother
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Emil Oskar Nobel
- Emil Oskar Nobel ( noh-BEL, Swedish: [n?'b?l?]; also Oscar; 1843 – 3 September 1864) was a member of the Nobel family, the youngest son of Immanuel Nobel and Karolina Andrietta Ahlsell.
- He was the brother of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel and Alfred Nobel.
- He was the only one of the Nobel family to go to college, going to the Swedish University of Uppsala.
- Emil died on September 3, 1864, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with nitroglycerine in his father's factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm.
- His brother Alfred later managed to stabilize dynamite with a diatomaceous earth called kieselguhr.
- Alfred was not in the factory at the time of Emil’s death.
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