Alfred Nobel

Same endpoint, but different mechanism of, uh, sGC activation.

And the real irony here is Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite using nitroglycerin, and whose fortune funded the Nobel Prize, was himself prescribed nitroglycerin for his heart condition late in life, and reportedly found the idea darkly amusing.

He wrote in a letter-

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I'm gonna c- conclude with a s- a story you might have heard.

Uh, doing some research online, it seems now that it's not so clear that it's true, but I've heard this in around 10 speeches, so it has to be true, right? [laughs] Um, we know the story of how Alfred Nobel started the Nobel Peace Prize.

We know the story? No? Okay.

So who's Alfred Nobel? Very, very, very wealthy individual.

In 1895, he signs his last will and testament in, in some Swedish-Norwegian club in Paris, giving out what would be worth today two hundred and sixty-five million dollars to a series of prizes known as the Nobel Peace Prize, which Jews have won a remarkable percentage of, but that's, that's a sidebar.

Why did he decide to create the Nobel Peace Prize? Because in 1888, his brother Ludvig died in France from a heart attack, and poor reporting in France reported that his brother had passed away, and they wrote an obituary in the newspaper for the brother, Alfred Nobel, not for, not for the one who actually died.

And what'd they write in that obituary? They called him the Merchant of Death.

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Dynamite.

Alfred Nobel would never, Paige.

Never.

Never ever.

If only we know what God is writing about us right now, we'd do things in a much better way.

If we know they're going to write an autobiography about us, this is the famous story of Alfred Nobel.

It says...

It says one of his factories blew up.

He used to manufacture dynamite.

He was on a train somewhere and he reads the morning papers.

He sees obituary column, Alfred Nobel.

He says, hey, what's going on over here? Then he reads what they write about him.

And then finally, Swedish scientist prize.

Alfred Nobel.

Is correct.

And I could have said explosion.

So the Rabbi says, Shlomo Melech says, chapter 7, it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting.

Why? Hopefully, person something will sink in some sort of moral reckoning will sink into the person he goes to the house of mourning so this is you know life is limited let me see what I could do my life I don't waste my life says by Nobel Nobel Prizes what was his name Richard Nobel? Alfred Nobel So he's on a train once and he's reading his own obituary in the newspaper.

One of his factories, he would make explosives, dynamite.

He had factories of dynamite.

Inner strength.

A man named Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden in 1833.

He died in 1896 of a stroke.

But before Alfred died in 1896, in 1888, he had the shock of his life.

He read his own obituary.

Could you imagine opening up a paper and there is your obituary? Could you imagine that shock? Would you not pinch yourself multiple times? Maybe slap yourself a little bit? Wow.

Alfred Nobel, his family were engineers.

And they tried to figure out how to bust through mountains and things like this.