He felt really bad that it was then used to deliberately kill people, hence the "prize".
Calvin Locke wrote: "I think Nobel lost his brother to nitroglycerin accident. Al came up with a way to stabilize it.He felt really bad that it was then used to deliberately kill people, hence the "prize".
Thanks for that . . .echoes of Paul Harvey and his infamous "and that is the rest of the story".
Check out the introduction to book “Aftermath, The Remnants of War” it tells the whole story. Actually, read the whole book. It’s fascinating.