Although I do find it ironic the guy who came up with the Nobel Peace prize (Alfred Nobel) was also the fellow who made dynamite. Basically, a paper reported that he was dead (it was actually his who had died not him) and didn't like how everyone was classifying as a "merchant of death" for his inventions. So he figured this would be a good reputation builder.
Neat, huh?
Personally, I thought he created the Nobel Peace Prize, because his brother was killed by dynamite and Nobel realized his invention was bad and did so much harm, he wanted to be able to honor the people who worked towards peace throughout the world in different fields.
