[yesenadam]

Nobel, inventor of dynamite, created the Nobel prizes to whitewash his name. It sure worked.

"by his death, his business had established more than 90 armaments factories, despite his apparently pacifist character."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

How ‘merchant of death’ Alfred Nobel became a champion of peace https://www.thelocal.se/20101004/29406/

[kwere]

One ancestor of modern good hearted billionaires