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      Yeah same one. He created the prize after his brother died and some newspapers thought it was him and ran scathing Eulogies of him. He had a come to Jesus moment and decided he didn’t want to be remembered as “the merchant of death” as the papers called him. So he donated part of his fortune to the prize committee.