- غير يتيم لكن ظروف حياتة كان فقر وسفر للدراسة في اماكن بعيدة عن العائلة والاهم انه كان وحيد الطبع لمروره بفترات من الاكتئاب.
- كان نوبل الابن الرابع لأسرة فقيرة .
- مات له اربعة اخوة وهم صغار ولم يتجاوزوا الطفولة.
- نتيجة لفشلة المتكرر في التجارة هاجر الوالد الى مدينة بطرسبيرغ عام 1837 (وعمر نوبل 4 سنوات )، والتحقت به العائلة عام 1842 وعمر نوبل 9 سنوات.
- تم إرسال ألفرد للتعليم في مدرسة في ستوكهولم وهو ابن 9 سنوات حيث برع الابن في دراسته لا سيما في الكيمياء واللغات، وكان يتحدث اللغات الإنجليزية والفرنسية والألمانية والروسية بطلاقة.
- انتقل إلى باريس سنة 1850، ( كان عمره 17 سنة ) .
- عندما أكمل 18 سنة ذهب إلى الولايات المتحدة لدراسة الكيمياء لمدة أربع سنوات، وعمل لفترة قصيرة مع جون إريكسون، وحصل ألفرد على أول براءة اختراع له عن عداد غاز عام 1857.
- كانت حياة نوبل العملية تتطلب السفر كثيرا للحفاظ على الشركات في مختلف البلدان في أوروبا وأمريكا الشمالية إلا أنه اتخذ مسكنا دائما في باريس من 1873 إلى 1891 وكان وحيد الطبع نظرا لمروره بفترات من الاكتئاب.
- مازوم

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel (1801–1872), an inventor and engineer, and Karolina Andriette (Ahlsell) Nobel (1805–1889). The couple married in 1827 and had eight children. The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood. Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702),[3] and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age. His interest in technology was inherited from his father, an alumnus of Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.[4]

Following various business failures, Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented modern plywood and started work on the "torpedo".[5] In 1842, the family joined him in the city. Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian. For 18 months, during 1841–1842, Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, the Jacobs Apologistic School in Stockholm.[2]

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Nobel filed his first patent, for a gas meter, in 1857.[2][6][1]
The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War (1853–1856); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.[1] In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (1831–1888), who greatly improved the business. Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine (discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin). Nobel invented a detonator in 1863; and, in 1865, he designed the blasting cap.[1]=

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