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Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
As of 2023, 65 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 64 women. [1] [3] Unique Nobel Prize laureates include 894 men, 64 women, and 27 organizations. [4] The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows: nineteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize (16.3% of 110 awarded); [5]
The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics was Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the prize in 2018. [ 7 ] Only five women have won the prize: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018), Andrea Ghez (2020), and Anne L'Huillier (2023). [ 8 ]
L'Huillier is the first female laureate to receive 1/3 of monetary award of the Nobel Prize in Physics (Curie, Goeppert–Mayer, Strickland and Ghez received 1/4). Physicists and physicochemists that won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry include Marie Curie, [9] Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie, in 1935, [10] and Dorothy Hodgkin in 1964. [11]
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple ...
The Nobel Prize medal received by the laureates. The Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset) is a set of five different prizes that, according to its benefactor Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will, must be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin. 2020: Andrea Mia Ghez: 16 June 1965 New York City, New York, United States — 2020: Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel and Roger Penrose. 2023: Anne L'Huillier: 16 August 1958 Paris, French Fourth Republic [b] — 2023
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969. [1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals. [2]