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Surprising facts about the Nobel Prize
Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in TWO different sciences — Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel laureate ever at age 17 when she won the Peace Prize in 2014.
The oldest Nobel laureate was John B. Goodenough, who won the Chemistry Prize in 2019 at age 97.
Bob Dylan is the only musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 2016 for 'new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.'
Only 3 people have ever declined the Nobel Prize: Jean-Paul Sartre (Literature, 1964), Le Duc Tho (Peace, 1973), and Boris Pasternak (Literature, 1958).
The Nobel Peace Prize medal weighs 175 grams and is made of 18-karat green gold plated with 24-karat gold.
John Bardeen is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics TWICE — in 1956 and 1972.
The 2024 Nobel Prize cash award was 11 million Swedish kronor, equivalent to approximately $1 million USD.
The United States has won more Nobel Prizes than any other country, with over 400 laureates.
Two Nobel Peace Prize winners have been in prison when they were awarded — Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Liu Xiaobo (2010).
Four married couples have won Nobel Prizes — the most famous being Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903.
Nobel Prizes are always awarded on December 10th — the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
Alfred Nobel held 355 patents during his lifetime and invented dynamite, which he hoped would be used for peaceful purposes.
Several Nobel laureates never completed a formal university degree, proving that genius isn't confined to academia.
Winners from over 60 different countries have received Nobel Prizes since 1901.