what invention by alfred nobel help him amassed the fortune with which the nobel prizes began after his death?
Alfred Nobel and the Prize That Almost Didnât Happen. When Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and more powerful explosives, died in 1896, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to create five annual prizes honoring ingenuity. The chemistry, medicine and physics prizes have come to be widely regarded as the most esteemed in their fields.