诺贝尔的英文简介

英文选读：关于诺贝尔的其人其事

alfred nobel

alfred nobel was born on october 21, 1833 in stockholm, sweden. in 1842, when alfred was nine years old, his mother (andrietta ahlsell) and brothers (robert and ludvig) moved to st. petersburg, russia to join alfred's father (immanuel), who had moved there five years earlier. the following year, alfred's younger brother, emil, was born. immanuel nobel, an architect, builder, and inventor, opened a machineshop in st. petersburg and was soon very successful with contracts from the russian government to build defense weapons. because of his father's success, alfred was tutored at home until the age of 16. yet, many consider alfred nobel a mostly self-educated man. besides being a trained chemist, alfred was an avid reader of literature and was fluent in english, german, french, swedish, and russian.

alfred also spent two years traveling. he spent much of this time working in a laboratory in paris, but also