With the Noble price for Literature, physics, Chemistry, Medicine all going to men and lastly Peace all been announced, below are interesting facts about the Noble price you need to know.
The Total number of recipients stands at 881 individuals and 23 organisations.
The Youngest laureate is Malala Yousafzai. She was awarded at just 17 years old, for peace in 2014.
Oldest Laureate is Leonid Hurwicz. His came at a ripe age of 90 years old, for economics in 2007.
Jean-Paul Sartre (literature, 1964) and Le Duc Tho (peace, 1973) have both declined the Award.
Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt, Gerhard Domagk and Boris Pasternak are all winners who have been forbidden from getting the Award.
John Bardeen (Physics in 1956 and 1972), Marie Curie (Physics in 1903; Chemistry in 1911), Linus Pauling (Chemistry in 1954; Peace in 1962) and Frederick Sanger (Chemistry in 1958 and 1980) were to astounding that their contributions were to enormous to be overlooked which earned them multiple awards.
832, 49, 23 all represent numbers of men, women and organisation that have won the Award respectively.
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