Interesting Facts About Nobel Prize
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| Interesting Facts About Nobel Prize |
1. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frederic Passy (France) in 1901.
2. Only those people who are alive are nominated for the Nobel Prize. However, if a person dies after being nominated, he is still a claimant for the award.
3. A total of 590 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 935 Nobel Prize winners between 1901-2018. The average age of all Nobel laureates in all award categories between 1901 and 2017 was 60 years.
4. John Bardeen is the only Nobel laureate who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice. The award was presented throughout 1956 and 1972.
5. Marie Curie is the only woman to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first time in 1903 and in Chemistry in 1911.
6. So far only 8 Indians have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize.
7. So far only 50 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2018. Among them, Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
8. From 1901 to 2018, only two Nobel Prizes have been sold while the Nobel Prize winner is still alive. Leon Lederman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the muon neutrino, sold his prize for $765,000 to pay for his cure.
9. Nobel Prizes have been awarded 573 times between 1901 and 2015. Out of them 2 people have been awarded the same Nobel Prize 135 times and 3 people have been awarded 97 times with the same Nobel Prize.
10. Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Prize 5 times. However, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated just 2 days before his 1948 nomination, as a result of which he was disqualified for the Nobel Prize.
11. Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prizes, gave an amount of 31 million Swedish Kroner ($265 million dollars) to the Nobel laureates. Alfred was a man of many talents. He was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer, inventor and philanthropist.
12. Johannes Fibiger was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1926 for the discovery of cancer-causing parasitic worms. But as it turned out later, his discovery of parasitic worms was untrue.
13. The Nobel Prize consists of 1 medal and a personal diploma. The Nobel Prize also includes a cash prize of 8 million Swedish kronor (equivalent to approximately US$1.1 million).
14. Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded 2 shared Nobel Prizes. He was awarded the prize in Chemistry in the year 1954 and later in 1962 he was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
15. Jean-paul Sartre is the only person to have declined the world's greatest prize, the Nobel Prize, in 1964. He was declining all official honors during that time.
16. Even if a person dies a natural death after being nominated for the Nobel Prize, they can still be awarded. So far this incident has happened 2 times. UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 after his death in a plane crash in Africa.
17. Malala Yousufzai is the youngest Nobel laureate. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of only 17.
18. John B. Goodenough became the oldest winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 at the age of 97.
19. Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite.
20. Alfred Nobel was the owner of the famous gun manufacturer Bofors Company.
21. Alfred Nobel had more than 355 patents, but he earned most of this wealth from arms sales.
22. A French newspaper had published an obituary of Alfred Nobel before his death and condemned him for the invention of military explosives. After reading this obituary of his own, Alfred Nobel wrote his will and donated 94% of his total wealth 31,225,000 Swedish Kronor for the establishment of five Nobel Prizes.
23. The cash prize of the Nobel Prize is given from the interest earned on the money given by Alfred Nobel.
24. Except for the Nobel Peace Prize, all the Nobel Prizes are given in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, on 10 December, the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel, in the presence of the King of Norway.
25. James Watson becomes the first laureate to auction his Nobel medal. He sold the award in 2014 for US$4.1 billion.
26. So far 6 married couples have won the Nobel Prize:
Marie Curie & Pierre Curie (Physics) - 1903
Irene Joliot-Curie & Frederic Joliot (Chemistry) - 1935
Gerty Cori & Carl Cori (Medicine) - 1947
May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser (Medicine) - 2014
Alva Myrdal (Peace) & Gunnar Myrdal (Economics) - 1974
Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee - 2019
27. The Curie family has won 4 Nobel Prizes: Marie Curie 2 prizes, Pierre Curie 1 prize and their daughter Irene Joliot Curie 1.
28. The international organizations ICRC and UNHCR have won the Nobel Peace Prize 3 and 2 times respectively.
