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Alfred Nobel
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Philanthropic founder
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prizes. President Bartlet invokes his name in a dry quip during a 685-point Dow plunge blamed on the Gehrman-Driscol fund collapse. Bartlet links Nobel's explosive invention to the market's destruction, using irony to deflect crisis gravity amid a canceled photo-op and superstitious unease from visitor Mr. Keith's Hoover anecdote.
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Explosives invention and Nobel Prizes
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