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What famous people have won the Nobel Prize?
Its list of winners includes Martin Luther King, Jr., Elihu Root, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Henri La Fontaine, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Wangari Maathai, Barack Obama, Liu Xiaobo, Juan Manuel Santos and Abiy Ahmed.
Who have received the Nobel Prize?
UNHCR has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger. Two laureates have been awarded twice but not in the same field: Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry) and Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace).
Who all got Nobel Prize 2020?
Nobel Prizes 2020
- Roger Penrose. “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”
- Reinhard Genzel. “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”
- Andrea Ghez.
Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners?
Nobel Prize Winners By Country. United States has the most noble prize winners with 353 followed by the UK with 125 and Germany with 105.
What scientist won the Nobel Peace Prize?
For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of four individuals to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie , John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger ).
How many Nobel Prizes are awarded each year?
Six Nobel Prizes are awarded each year, one in each of the following categories: literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, and physiology & medicine.
Who are the Nobel Prize winners in physics?
Kids Encyclopedia Facts. The Nobel Prize in Physics is a Nobel Prize in the science of physics. Some famous winners are: Albert Einstein. Werner Heisenberg. Marie Curie. Guglielmo Marconi. Peter Higgs.