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Is the Nobel Prize origin story (in which Alfred Nobel reads his own obituary due to a mix-up in a French newspaper, attributing his brother's death to him, and is so appalled with the way he would be remembered that he allocated the bulk of his money for the Nobel Prizes) considered to be true?

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Is the Nobel Prize origin story (in which Alfred Nobel reads his own obituary due to a mix-up in a French newspaper, attributing his brother's death to him, and is so appalled with the way he would be remembered that he allocated the bulk of his money for the Nobel Prizes) considered to be true?	184