Emil died on 3 September 1864, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with nitroglycerine in his father's factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm.
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After the death of his younger brother Emil in an 1864 nitroglycerin explosion at the family's armaments factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, Nobel founded Nitroglycerin AB in Vinterviken, Stockholm.