Fact sheet 2 about Nobel Prize (By Arun Joshi, Sri-Krishna Institute,9888933043)

1.To date, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is Mairead Corrigan, who was 32 years old when she was awarded the Peace Prize in 1976.
2.The oldest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to date is Joseph Rotblat, who was 87 years old when he was awarded the Prize in 1995.
3.Of the 97 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 12 are women. The first time a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a woman was in 1905, to Bertha von Suttner.
4.The work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honoured the most - three times - by a Nobel Peace Prize (1917,1944,1963). In addition, the founder of the ICRC, Henry Dunant, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
5.Two Nobel Laureates have declined the Nobel Prize. Jean-Paul Sartre, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours. Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. They were awarded the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. Le Doc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason.
6.Four Nobel Laureates have been forced by authorities to decline the Nobel Prize. Adolf Hitler forbade three German Nobel Laureates, Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt and Gerhard Domagk, from accepting the Nobel Prize. All of them could later receive the Nobel Prize Diploma and Medal, but not the prize amount. Boris Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Laureate in Literature, initially accepted the Nobel Prize but was later coerced by the authorities of the Soviet Union, his native country, to decline the Nobel Prize.
7.Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes - the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

8.Multiple Nobel Prizes
J. Bardeen
Physics 1956
Physics 1972

M. Curie
Physics 1903
Chemistry 1911

L. Pauling
Chemistry 1954
Peace 1962

F. Sanger
Chemistry 1958
Chemistry 1980

ICRC
Peace 1917
Peace 1944
Peace 1963

UNHCR
Peace 1954
Peace 1981

9.Married couples:
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot

Gerty Cori
Carl Cori

Alva Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal

10.Father and Son:
William Bragg
Lawrence Bragg

Niels Bohr
Aage N. Bohr

Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Ulf von Euler

Arthur Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg

Manne Siegbahn
Kai M. Siegbahn

J. J. Thomson
George Paget Thomson

11.Mother & Daughter
Marie Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie

12.Father & Daughter
Pierre Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie

13.Brothers:
Jan Tinbergen
Nikolaas Tinbergen

14. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. The Prize is based on a donation received by the Foundation in 1968 from Sveriges Riksbank on the occasion of the Bank's 300th anniversary. The first Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.

15. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 23 times to organizations between 1901 and 2009. 20 individual organizations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.