The great 20th century American epileptologist William Gordon Lennox thought so. 'Nobel was subject to migraine, and to convulsions from infancy.' He is clearly referring to Nobel's poem here. |
It is highly probable that the founder of the Nobel prizes did not suffer from epilepsy as an adult, but it is not impossible that Alfred had epileptic seizures as a young child, which later made him write of convulsions and agony in his poem. An epileptologist would have to say that Nobel was probably not a genius with epilepsy but could have been a genius who had occasional epileptic seizures when he was a child. |