Ganacsi OP t1_ixo1u2q wrote on November 24, 2022 at 10:54 PM

> A few months before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was prescribed nitroglycerin for this heart condition, writing to a friend: "Isn’t it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitro-glycerin, to be taken internally! They call it Trinitrin, so as not to scare the chemist and the public." The medical establishment also used the name "glyceryl trinitrate" for the same reason.

MechaBeatsInTrash t1_ixo4cj8 wrote on November 24, 2022 at 11:15 PM

I see in the other comments that the Nobel prizes have accomplished their intended task of masking the name of the man who invented such a powerful explosive.