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About Nobel tourism
Alfred Nobel was something of a pacifist and was dismayed at the many military and terroristic uses of his invention, dynamite, the first safe high potency explosive. According to an often-repeated story, Nobel was so distraught when a premature obituary called him "the merchant of death" that he decided to use his (in his mind) ill-begotten wealth for more noble aims, thus instituting the Nobel Prize from his inheritance. According to Nobel's will, the prize laureates are selected by institutions in Sweden and Norway: the Swedish Royal Science Academy for physics and chemistry, the Karolinska Institute for medicine, the Swedish Academy for literature, and a committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for peace. All prizes can be shared by up to three individuals, except the
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