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Add — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.206.10.213 (talk) 09:18, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ibsen did not receive Noble prize

I have found proof that Nobel did not create the Nobel Prize because of a premature obituary...

Alfred Nobel's brother did die in 1888 and a French newspaper did publish a premature obituary but it didn't call him a "Merchant of Death". In fact, the term "Merchant of Death" was coined in 1932, 54 years after this obituary! I wrote up my evidence in my webpage, ^[1] but I have a conflict of interest towards editing the page itself.

I hope I am doing this right,

Thanks,

Kathy

--Kathy Loves Physics (talk) 22:46, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's almost certainly an urban legend. Here's an article from Smithsonian Magazine on it which, despite its title, essentially dismisses the story: ^[2]. Here's a further discussion on Stack Exchange: ^[3] Mahousu (talk) 18:14, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Balistreri, Kathy. "Alfred Nobel's Obituary Calling Him a "Merchant of Death" Never Happened & Never Inspired the Nobel Prize". www.kathylovesphysics.com.
^ Schultz, Colin. "Blame Sloppy Journalism for the Nobel Prizes". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
^ "Is there any record of the premature obituary of Alfred Nobel?". Stack Exchange. Retrieved 27 November 2020.

Picture of the knee-high sculpture of Alfred Nobel by Mihály Kolodko

Hello, Wikifolks. I have just uploaded my first image to Wikipedia. It's a photograph of the small (gnome-sized) sculpture of Alfred Nobel, by Hungarian sculptor Mihály Kolodko, which resides in a park in Stockholm (I mean the sculpture resides there, not the sculptor). The photograph was taken by a personal friend who is currently in Stockholm and has dual citizenship in Sweden and USA. She has verbally given whatever publication rights may exist to me as a (partial) birthday gift. So, other than assuring you (here) that no one other than me owns the copyright to this image (if there is a copyright to it), I'm not sure what else I need to do to officially put it here, copyright-wise. Is there some text I need to sign? I tried to look this up but all I see is notifications that some rule has changed in some way; the notifications seem to have been posted more than a decade ago.

Please advise, and, if I've somehow broken or bent a rule in my ignorance, feel free to revert this contribution and let me know what's wrong about it.

Thank you, HandsomeMrToad (talk) 15:45, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DYK potential

If this hadn't already appeared on the main page, ... that Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize after reading an erroneous obituary condemning him as a war profiteer? would've made an excellent DYK. I hope DYK changes its rules to allow things like this someday. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:35, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdkb: it seems this is an urban legend, and just hasn't been fixed in the article yet. See above. --Yurik (talk) 05:37, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The formatting is broken for the image and details 46.18.48.209 (talk) 11:24, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Balistreri, Kathy. "Alfred Nobel's Obituary Calling Him a "Merchant of Death" Never Happened & Never Inspired the Nobel Prize". www.kathylovesphysics.com.

[2] Schultz, Colin. "Blame Sloppy Journalism for the Nobel Prizes". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved 27 November 2020.

[3] "Is there any record of the premature obituary of Alfred Nobel?". Stack Exchange. Retrieved 27 November 2020.

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