how did Alfred Nobel discover dynamite?
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Through the discovery of nitroglycerin by two guys. \n\nNobel began experimenting with it until freak accident at a laboratory where he was working with nitroglycerin an explosion occurred, killing 6 including his brother.
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There was a mysterious explosion.  The explosion was extreamly powerful (on the scale of atomic bombs I believe), flatting trees all around.  But it wasnt for a number of years that people were able to get up there and try find out what happened.\n\nIt possible could have been a meteor explosion right before it hit the ground, but there is no other evidence to support this.  I dont think we really know what happened, but the meteor idea is pretty likely I think.
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Lise Meitner (November 17, 1878–October 27, 1968) was an Austrian physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.\n\nBorn in Vienna, Austria, Lise Meitner was the third of eight children of a Jewish family. She entered the University of Vienna in 1901, studying physics under Ludwig Boltzmann. After she obtained her doctorate degree, she went to Berlin in 1907 to study with Max Planck and work with the chemist Otto Hahn. She collaborated with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a section in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.\n\nIn 1918, they discovered the element protactinium.\n\nIn 1923, she discovered the radiationless transition known as the Auger effect, which is named for Pierre Victor Auger, a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later.\n\nWith the discovery of the neutron in the early 1930s, speculation arose in the scientific community that it might be possible to create elements heavier than uranium (atomic number 92) in the laboratory. A scientific race commenced between Ernest Rutherford in Britain, Irene Joliot-Curie in France, Enrico Fermi in Italy, and the Meitner-Hahn team in Berlin. At the time, all concerned believed that this was abstract research for the probable honor of a Nobel prize. None suspected that this research would culminate in nuclear weapons.
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First he created dynamite but was afraid his legacy would be the militry use of that would make his legacy one of death.  He began giving Nobel Peace Prizes to insure his legacy would be one of peace.  Perhaps what he teaches is that you can control your own legacy for future generations.
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, San Remo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, pacifist, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, that he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him.
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Einstein received the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery that a quanta of energy (photon) could free up an electron in his famous photoelectric effect.
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Yeah, i think it is possible, i heard of this one experiment, this guy kept trying to light matches. It took him a good year or so, He found out that the atmosheric pressure in seberia was not suitable for match lighting. He had to then put a match in a controlled enviroment, then he light it.\n\nI think he is being nominated for the noble peace prize
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Gamma rays were discovered by the French chemist and physicist, Paul Ulrich Villard in 1900 while he was studying uranium. Working in the chemistry department of the École Normale in rue d'Ulm, Paris with self-constructed equipment, he found that the rays were not bent by a magnetic field.
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the person who discovered the cycle of rocks discovered the rock cycle
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In 1939, under the encouragement of Szilárd, Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urging the study of nuclear fission for military purposes, under fears that the Nazi government would be first to develop atomic weapons. Roosevelt started a small investigation into the matter which eventually became the massive Manhattan Project. Einstein himself did not work on the bomb project, however.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Adolf Hitler
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http://ninjapirate.com/napoleon_dynamite.html
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He was a chemist who discovered guncotton and ozone.  I'm sure Wiki would have an entry on him, and maybe some actual refrences
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered it in 1772, and Joseph Priestly found it in 1774 (independently).  Scheele was a Swede, Priestly was an Englishman.
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In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. \n\nHe was trying to grow bacteria, bu tHe found that in the vessel that had penicilin, all the bacteria are dead, he tested it several times and finally he found the anti-bacterial power in penicillin. [Most probably he recvd Noble prize for this]\n\nSince then, the mankind is endowed with yet another strong weapon to fight bacteria.\n\nSay thanks to Flemming!
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Early observations\nIn 1839, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel observed the photoelectric effect via an electrode in a conductive solution exposed to light. In 1873, Willoughby Smith found that selenium is photoconductive.\n\n[edit]\nHertz's spark gaps\nHeinrich Hertz, in 1887, made observations of the photoelectric effect and of the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves, published in the journal Annalen der Physik. His receiver consisted of a coil with a spark gap, whereupon a spark would be seen upon detection of EM waves. He placed the apparatus in a darkened box in order to see the spark better; he observed, however, that the maximum spark length was reduced when in the box. A glass panel placed between the source of EM waves and the receiver absorbed ultraviolet radiation that assisted the electrons in jumping across the gap. When removed, the spark length would increase. He observed no decrease in spark length when he substituted quartz for glass, as quartz does not absorb UV radiation.\n\nHertz concluded his months of investigation and reported the results obtained. He did not further pursue investigation of this effect, nor did he make any attempt at explaining how the observed phenomenon was brought about.
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He invented a "photophone", the predecessor to our fiber optics.  It was a way to transmit information, in the form of sound, over light. In addition, he invented a vacuum jacket that would eventually become the iron lung used in polio cases in the 50s.  He also pioneered into the area of desalinization, "alternative energies" and recycling.  He also invented the concept of metal detectors, using an inductive pickup coil.
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Sticky tape 5kg of plutonium to 1 stick of dynamite. Light fuse and stand well back.