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Emil Oskar Nobel

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Emil Oskar Nobel

Birth
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia
Death
3 Sep 1864 (aged 20)
Svalöv, Svalövs kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
Burial
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Swedish • brother of Alfred Nobel; Emil died together with several other factory workers, the victim of an explosion, while experimenting with nitroglycerine at Nobels Sprängolja, his father's factory at Heleneborg in Stockholm. At the time, Nobel was a student in Uppsala, but also helped in the factory. After the explosion, production of nitroglycerin was banned in the factory, but continued close to Heleneborg on an anchored barge in a bay of Lake Mälaren.

Besides Alfred, Emil was the brother of Robert Nobel and Ludvig Nobel.

Emil was the only member of the family to attend college at the University of Uppsala.
Swedish • brother of Alfred Nobel; Emil died together with several other factory workers, the victim of an explosion, while experimenting with nitroglycerine at Nobels Sprängolja, his father's factory at Heleneborg in Stockholm. At the time, Nobel was a student in Uppsala, but also helped in the factory. After the explosion, production of nitroglycerin was banned in the factory, but continued close to Heleneborg on an anchored barge in a bay of Lake Mälaren.

Besides Alfred, Emil was the brother of Robert Nobel and Ludvig Nobel.

Emil was the only member of the family to attend college at the University of Uppsala.


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