N4: NOBEL PRIZES

Nobel Prize was instituted by the inventor of dyanamite, Alfred Bernanrd Nobel.The awards are being given since 1901.
This award is given every year to those eminent persons who have made pioneering and path breaking discoveries in the fileds of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Pece, Literature and Economics.
The Nobel for Economics was instituted in 1964 and was first given in 1969.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive the honour for his work Gitanjali.
8 Indians won Nobel so far.
Malala Yousafzai was the youngest ( 17 yesrs ) to have received the honour.
All the prizes are given in Stockhom, where as Peace prize is given in Oslo.
Marie Curie was the first woman and the first person to receive the honour twice.
The oldest person to receive the honour is Francis Peyton Rous ( at the age of 87 years.)
USA is the country with highest number of Nobel laureates.
No awards were given in the period of 1940-42.(there was no awarding due to the world war)

THE FIRST PERSONS TO WIN THE NOBEL IN VARIOUS FIELDS:

PHYSICS: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Germany

CHEMISTRY: JcobusHernicus VAn’t Hoff

PHYSIOLOGY: Emil Adolf Von Behring

LITERATURE: Sully Prudhomme( France)

PEACE: Jean Henry Dunant( Germany) and Frederic Passy(France)

ECONOMICS: Ragnar Frisch( Norway) & Jan Tinbergen ( Netherlands)

NOBEL DOUBLERS:

Marie Curie for Physics (1903) and Chemistry(1911)

Linus Pauling for Chemistry (1954) and Peace ( 1962)

John Bardeen for Physics(1956& 1972)

Frederick Sanger for Chemistry (1958 & 1980)

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