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Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962: California Institute of Technology, Oregon State University: Robert H. Perry (1924–1978) Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook: University of Oklahoma: Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the tau lepton
Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Life and career
Irving Langmuir (/ ˈ l æ ŋ m j ʊər /; [2] January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
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]
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation, Royal Academy of Engineering: Ground-breaking innovation in engineering which has been of global benefit to humanity United Kingdom: Saltire Prize: Scottish Government's Energy and Climate Change Directorate: Advances in the commercial development of marine ...
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 prize in 1915 at the age of 25. He was also the youngest laureate for any Nobel prize until 2014 (when Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17). [6]
[28] She is the first woman graduate of Princeton to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the first person who got their undergraduate degree from Princeton (man or woman) to receive a Nobel Prize in one of the natural sciences categories (chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine). [11] In November 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. [54]
Wolf Prize (1978), which is considered second in importance to the Nobel Prize (but considered first in importance for the fields that doesn't have a Nobel Prize), with more than a third of recipients going on to win the Nobel, recognizing outstanding achievements in medicine, agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and arts [20] [357]