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Facts about Nobel Prizes
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- 1The youngest Nobel Prize laureatesMalala Yousafzai
she received the Nobel Peace Prize at 17 years old. - 2The woman of many firstsMarie Curie
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize. The first person to win more than one Nobel Prize (the only woman to win more than once).
The first person to win a Nobel in more than one scientific field.
- 3Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace PrizeGandhi was nominated for the award five times. His final nomination came just weeks after his assassination in January 1948.
- 4The oldest Nobel Prize laureatesJohn B. Goodenough
He won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry at 97 years old.
- 5He declined the prizeJean-Paul Sartre
awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours.
- 6Nobel Prize laureates under arrest at the time of the awardCarl von Ossietzky: German pacifist and journalist
Aung San Suu Kyi: Burmese politician
Liu Xiaobo: Chinese human rights activist
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All of them Nobel Peace Prize laureates
- 7Times without Nobel PrizesThe total number of times are 49. Most of them during World War I (1914-1918) and II (1939-1945).
- 8The Nobel Prize MedalNobel Prize medal is handmade with careful precision and in 18 carat recycled gold.
- 9Women Nobel Prizes laureatesBetween 1901 and 2021 the Nobel Prize and prize in economic sciences have been awarded 58 times to women.
- 10LocationStockholm, Sweden: for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics
Oslo, Norway: the Nobel Peace Prize
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