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On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm.
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Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
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Prizes established by Alfred Nobel in 1895
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