16 Choose the correct form to complete the sentences. Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His father 1) ... an engineer and inventor. After his father 2) ... an engineering firm providing equipment for the Tsar's armies, Nobel's family 3) ... to Russia. In 1850 Nobel's father 4) ... him abroad to study chemical engineering. During a two-year period Nobel 5) ... Sweden, Germany, France and the United States. After the family firm 6) ... bankrupt in 1863, the Nobels 7) ... to Sweden. Back in Sweden, Alfred Nobel 8) ... himself to the study of explosives. He 9) ... nitroglycerine into silica which 10) ... it safer and easier to manipulate. This he 11) ... in 1867 under the name of «dynamite». Dynamite 12) ... Nobel's fame and was soon used in blasting tunnels, cutting canals and building railways and roads all over the world. In the 1870s and 1880s Nobel 13) ... up a network of factories all over Europe to manufacture explosives. He 14) ... to work in his laboratory, inventing a number of synthetic materials and by the time of his death he 15) ... 355 patents. In November 1895, Nobel 16) ... his will providing for the establishment of the Nobel Prize. He 17) ... to establish annual prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace. An Economics Prize was added later. Nobel 18) ... at his home in Italy on 10 December 1896. He is buried in Stockholm.

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