It was October, and the streets of Stockholm were crowded.
Every time this year, this city that was near the Baltic Sea would attract attention from all over the world due to the Nobel Prize.
Although the awards were given out by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, most Stockholm citizens were still proud of this.
Interestingly, not all of them were like this.
Back when nationalism swept across Europe, many Swedes would publicly complain or even criticize a rich Swedish scholar—Nobel.
They would say how Nobel never donated his inheritance to the country, nor did he give the Scandinavians any advantage of winning the prize. What Nobel left behind wasn't a gift, it was years and years of trouble.
