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"Hawkeye" Pierce ([personal profile] notinflictthem) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs 2024-03-16 01:27 am (UTC)

"Yeah that's the one. See- dynamite paved the way for modern ballistics, and our buddy Mr Nobel decided that he wanted his legacy to be... not that. Story goes he read his own premature obituary that called him 'the merchant of death'. So he funded a prize for fields that better humanity- medicine, literature, uh- peace, physics, and chemistry. Very big thing, lots of publicity, it's about... $20,000 in prize money, last I remember."

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