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Nobel Prizes Created
The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel as his last wish. They started being awarded in 1901.
Nobel Prizes were awarded 609 times to 975 people and organisations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 943 individuals and 25 organisations. -
First Nobel Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize was divided equally between Jean Henry Dunant "for his humanitarian efforts to help wounded soldiers and create international understanding" and Frédéric Passy "for his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy and arbitration" -
The Nobel prize in medicine
Ronald Ross
“for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it” What is malaria❓Check this link⬇️
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1st female laureate ever
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 was divided, 1/2 awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
"in recognition of the services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" https://youtu.be/DWZ6Yut0boU -> Marie Curie’s life -
First Spanish to win a Nobel 🇪🇸
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 was awarded jointly to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
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1st year with no Nobel Prize in Literature & Peace awarded
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 was awarded to Walther Hermann Nernst "in recognition of his work in thermochemistry".
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Physiscs Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". Although it wasn’t his most famous discovery -
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1st Nobel Peace Prize winner two years straight
The Nobel Peace Prize 1922-1923 was awarded to Fridtjof Nansen "for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war, in international relief work and as the League of Nations' High Commissioner for refugees"
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❌No Noble Prize
There weren’t any type of award due to the World War and some of the members of the committee were in exile. So they decided to wait some years and the money of the prizes which weren’t given, was used for future awards and celebrations -
First Literature Nobel Prize awarded to a Latin American
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 was awarded to Gabriela Mistral "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"
Her work: Tala https://biblioteca.org.ar/libros/89974.pdf -
Medicine Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 was awarded to Hermann Joseph Muller "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation"
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Medicine Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953 was divided equally between Hans Adolf Krebs "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle" and Fritz Albert Lipmann "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"
Also known as Krebs cycle: https://youtu.be/UZlmm-yzWrQ -
First Nobel Prize winner of two unshared awards
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 was awarded to Linus Carl Pauling "for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West".
He received it one year later in 1963. -
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"
It was the first Nobel Peace Prize winned thanks to the fight for black people’s rights -
First award to a NGO
The Nobel Peace Prize 1965 was awarded to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) "for its effort to enhance solidarity between nations and reduce the difference between rich and poor states" -
Literature Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 was awarded to Pablo Neruda "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize 2000 was awarded to Kim Dae-jung "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular" -
Nobel Prize (Peace) awarded to the smallest person
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Malala Yousafzai when she was 17 "for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"
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Noble Prize awarded to the oldest person
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" half thanks to his discover "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", the other half "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
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Last physics prize winner
Frank Fish, Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji, and Atilla Incecik, for trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation. Back in 1994, biologist Frank Fish was curious about how formation movement in animals, could reduce the energy expenditure of individual animals
https://youtu.be/yh4fYC38wl0