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In 2013, she received the Sakharov Prize, and in 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Aged 17 at the time, she was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. [20] [21] [22] In 2015, she was the subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He Named Me Malala.
Linus Pauling, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1962, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes; he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. [6] At 17 years of age, Malala Yousafzai, the 2014 recipient, is the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize. [6]
The 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) ... is its youngest recipient to date. [2] [3] Laureate
Hammarskjöld is the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to have been awarded it posthumously. ... Aged 17 at the time she received her Nobel, Yousafzai is its youngest recipient to date. 2015: National ...
The Nobel Foundation announced on 30 May 2012 that it had awarded the contract for the production of the five (Swedish) Nobel Prize medals to Svenska Medalj AB. Between 1902 and 2010, the Nobel Prize medals were minted by Myntverket (the Swedish Mint), Sweden's oldest company, which ceased operations in 2011 after 107 years. In 2011, the Mint ...
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won the
At the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize recipient ever. [59] She is also the second Pakistani and first ethnic Pashtun to be awarded a Nobel Prize. [60] Malala Yousafzai: 'I'm a feminist and a Muslim' [61] 2023 Narges Mohammadi (b. 1972) Iranian human rights activist.