Who got 3 times Nobel?
The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work.
Switzerland-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the only 3-time recipient of the Nobel Prize, being conferred with Peace Prize in 1917, 1944, and 1963. Further, the humanitarian institution's co-founder Henry Dunant won the first-ever Peace Prize in 1901.
If receiving a Nobel Prize is the highest recognition for a scientist, being awarded twice by the Swedish Academy of Sciences is an extraordinary fact that, so far, only four people can boast: Frederick Sanger, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen and Marie Curie.
The Curie Family has received the most prizes, with four prizes awarded to five individual laureates. Marie Curie received the prizes in Physics (in 1903) and Chemistry (in 1911).
News - Video - Albert Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel prize in physics. NSF - National Science Foundation.
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded 50 years ago to then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Vietnam's Le Duc Tho remains one of the most controversial Nobels ever. The pair had signed the Paris Peace Accords calling for an armistice in Vietnam.
The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of illustrious scientists. Pierre Curie, his Polish-born wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie, their daughter, Irène, and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, are its most prominent members. Five members of the family in total were awarded a Nobel Prize.
The rule that a prize can only be awarded to three people comes from the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which is responsible for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will. It specifically states: “In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons.”
1. Malala Yousafzai. The youngest Nobel laureate, Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17 for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
Among six laureates, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature as he refused all official honours. Vietnamese revolutionary Le Duc Tho declined the 1973 Peace Prize, citing the Vietnam war. Adolf Hitler forbade three Germans, who later received the medal and not the cash prize.
Who is the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize?
At the age of 17, activist, writer, and producer Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, Stranger at the Gate, a documentary that she executive produced, is nominated for an Oscar.
In 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dynamic leadership of the Civil Rights movement and steadfast commitment to achieving racial justice through nonviolent action.
Stephen Hawking made significant contributions to the field of theoretical physics and cosmology, particularly in the study of black holes and the nature of the universe. However, he did not receive a Nobel Prize during his lifetime.
Best known for developing the theory of relativity, he is amongst the top most geniuses the world has recognized. Einstein never took an IQ score test. However, based on his historical records, academics have estimated his score to be around 160.
In 1922, the Nobel Prize in Physics was endowed with 121,572:54 Swedish kronor, a relatively small sum compared with other years, yet the equivalent of more than twelve years' income for Albert Einstein. The divorce agreement of February 1919 stipulated that the capital was to be deposited in a Swiss bank account.
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama (b. 1961) for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
The most-contentious Nobel Prize is arguably the one for peace. Many recipients draw criticism for purported unpeaceful behavior. Among the most-notable examples is Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat.
When Hanoi was bombed at Christmastime on Kissinger's orders, Le Duc Tho agreed to an armistice. But when he received the Peace Prize together with Kissinger in the autumn of 1973, he refused to accept it, on the grounds that his opposite number had violated the truce.
Just Plain Wrong
Danish scientist Johannes Fibiger won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering what he thought was a cancer-causing parasite—a bold idea that turned out to be phenomenally wrong.
STOCKHOLM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Winners of this year's Nobel Prizes will get an extra 1 million crowns, taking the total financial reward to 11 million Swedish crowns ($986,000), the Nobel Foundation, which administers the awards, said on Friday.
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Nobel Foundation raises the amount for this year's Nobel Prize awards to 11 million kronor. STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Foundation said Friday that it will raise the award amount for this year's Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11 million kronor ($986,270) as the Swedish currency has plummeted recently.
Jews have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes in economics, 30% of those in medicine, 25% in physics, 20% in chemistry, 15% in literature and 10% of the Nobel Peace Prizes. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been just over 900 Nobel Prizes awarded.
Marie Skłodowska Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only woman to receive two Nobel prizes. While studying uranium's rays, she discovered new elements and named them polonium and radium.
In 1912, the Nobel Committee announced that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were the recipients of the Physics Prize; instead, the prize went to Gustav Dalen. Details of the reversal are unclear but it is known that Tesla refused the prize (and the $20,000 that came with it).
