Nobel Prizes & other Prizes of Different Fields
1. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino.
2. The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 in the field of “Peace” was awarded to the European Union (EU).
3. Ramon Magsaysay Award is regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
4. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize was Madam Marie Curie.
5. The Nobel Prize has been awarded in six fields.
6. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018 was awarded to George Smith, Frances Arnold, and Greg Winter.
7. The first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901.
8. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for Immunotherapy.
9. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the First Observation of Gravitational Waves.
10. Nobel Prize 2019 in Physics was awarded in the field of Cosmology.
11. The Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 was awarded to Gérard Mourou, Arthur Ashkin, and Donna Strickland.
12. Alfred Nobel’s nationality was Swedish.
13. Nobel Prize in Economics started in 1969.
14. The first Asian to win the Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore.
15. The Nobel Prize for Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro.
16. Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 together with another South African leader, Frederik de Klerk.
17. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2017 was awarded to Richard H. Thaler.
18. The first Nobel Prize for Economics was given in 1969.
19. Nobel Prize is awarded for Physics and Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics.
20. In 2017, the USA had the most Nobel Prize winners.
21. Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
22. The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded in Sweden.
23. Malala Yousafzai was the youngest Nobel laureate ever.
24. The Nobel Prize in Economics category was established most recently.
25. Nelson Mandela was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
26. Charles Darwin is known for his theory of evolution.
27. The Literature Prize cannot be awarded posthumously.
28. Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
29. Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields.
30. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nelson Mandela for ending apartheid in South Africa.
31. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
32. Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
33. Ramon Magsaysay Award is known as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.
34. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in 1913.
35. Max Planck received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the discovery of Energy Quanta.
36. The Nobel Prize in Physics category is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
37. Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
38. Santiago Ramón y Cajal is known for his research on the human brain and its functions.
39. John Bardeen was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
40. Toni Morrison was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
41. Maria Goeppert Mayer was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
42. The Turing Award is awarded for significant advancements in the field of computer science.
43. Harold Varmus is known for his research on the genetic basis of cancer.
44. Jean-Paul Sartre was the first person to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature.
45. Frederick Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the structure of insulin.
46. Jean Monnet was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the establishment of the European Union.
47. The Nobel Prize in Economics is not awarded annually.
48. Carl von Ossietzky was the first person to win a Nobel Prize posthumously.
49. Linus Pauling was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.