This juicy gossip fails to die, please see, e.g. http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp for a nice debunking. For one t

This juicy gossip fails to die, please see, e.g. http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp for a nice debunking. For one thing Nobel never had a wife. Also, he emigrated from Sweden in 1865 when Mittag-Leffler was a student and rarely returned to visit.