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listening. Terms apply. In April 1888, the French newspaper Le Figaro ran an obituary. It read,

A man who cannot very easily pass for a benefactor of

humanity died yesterday in Khan. It was Mr. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Another newspaper

reportedly proclaimed, The Merchant of Death is dead. In fact, Alfred Nobel wasn't dead.

The obituary was a mistake, but it gave him the chance few people get to see how the world

regards their legacy, and it may have inspired him to reinvent his. Welcome to a special bonus episode of Flashback. I'm Sean Braswell. Today a story about another

fateful moment from history, the premature obituary that may have launched the most illustrious

prizes on the globe, a journalistic air that may have prompted one hell of a correction.

It was no accident that Alfred Nobel became an inventor and an explosives expert.

His father had been the same thing. He'd run armaments factories and built underwater mines for

Russia during the Crimean War. Born in 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden,

young Alfred never earned a degree or attended college.

But in addition to absorbing his father's knowledge of explosives,

he traveled widely, learned several languages,

and trained under a world-renowned chemist in Paris.

At the age of 24, he obtained his first patent, the first of more

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