- Nobel prizes are given in accordance with the will of Swedish inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel.
- The first Nobel Prize was awarded in the year 1901
- The Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held on December 10 every year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s
- death in 1896.
- All the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden except for the Nobel Peace Prize which is awarded
- in Oslo, Norway.
- The Nobel Prizes were initially given in FIVE fields viz. Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace and
- Literature.
- Nobel Prize in the field of Economic Sciences was instituted in the year 1969.
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- Â The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Marie Curie for Physics in 1903.
- The first person and only woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in two different fields – Marie Curie for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911
- The first man to be awarded the Nobel Prize in two different fields – Linus Pauling for Chemistry in 1954 and for Peace in 1962.
- The first Asian (also first Indian) to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Rabindranath Tagore for literature in 1913.
- The first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Wangari Maathai from Kenya for peace in 2004
- The first person to be awarded, Nobel Prize in the field of Physics – Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen in 1901 for his
the discovery of X-rays. - The first person to be awarded Nobel Prize in the field of Literature in the English language – Rudyard Kipling (of Jungle Book fame) in 1907.
- The first person to be awarded, Nobel Prize for Peace – Jean Henry Dunant, founder of International Red Cross in 1901, jointly with Frédéric Passy, Founder and President of first French peace society.
- The first woman to be awarded, Nobel Prize for Peace – Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner of Austria in 1905
- The youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize Malala Yousafzai – for Peace in 2014 (at the age of 17 years)
- The only organisation to be awarded the Nobel Prize thrice International Committee of the Red Cross – 1917, 1944 and 1963.
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