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Having received the prize at the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel laureate. [21] [22] [166] Yousafzai shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a children's rights activist from India. [167] She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize after 1979 Physics laureate Abdus Salam. [168]
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
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]
At the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize recipient ever. [59] ... "Nobel Prize winner highlights women's role in Arab Spring" The Michigan Daily ...
Youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize: Malala Yousafzai; at the age of 17, received Nobel Peace Prize (2014). Oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize: John B. Goodenough; at the age of 97, received Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019). Only person to receive more than one unshared Nobel Prize: Linus Pauling; received the prize twice.
In 2014, Yousafzai became the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate at the age of 17. She received the accolade for her work in advocating for education for women and children in her native ...
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]
Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese ...