Alfred Nobel
Subtitle: a biography
By: Kenne Fant ; translated from the Swedish by Marianne Ruuth.
Edition: 1st English-language ed.
Publisher: Arcade; Distributed by Little, Brown
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896.; Chemical engineers -- Sweden -- Biography.
Description: Fant's biography of Alfred Nobel, the only one available in English, shows the paradoxes of the man who revolutionized the technology of destruction and invented dynamite, but whose dreams of a disarmed world inspired him to create the Nobel Peace Prize.
Notes: Includes index.