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Curiosities about the Nobel Prize.
Flashcards by Andrea Pan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrea Pan
almost 3 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The youngest Nobel Prize laureates | Malala Yousafzai she received the Nobel Peace Prize at 17 years old. |
| The woman of many firsts | Marie 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. |
| Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize | Gandhi was nominated for the award five times. His final nomination came just weeks after his assassination in January 1948. |
| The oldest Nobel Prize laureates | John B. Goodenough He won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry at 97 years old. |
| He declined the prize | Jean-Paul Sartre awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours. |
| Nobel Prize laureates under arrest at the time of the award | Carl von Ossietzky: German pacifist and journalist Aung San Suu Kyi: Burmese politician Liu Xiaobo: Chinese human rights activist . All of them Nobel Peace Prize laureates |
| Times without Nobel Prizes | The total number of times are 49. Most of them during World War I (1914-1918) and II (1939-1945). |
| The Nobel Prize Medal | Nobel Prize medal is handmade with careful precision and in 18 carat recycled gold. |
| Women Nobel Prizes laureates | Between 1901 and 2021 the Nobel Prize and prize in economic sciences have been awarded 58 times to women. |
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden: for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics Oslo, Norway: the Nobel Peace Prize |
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