IMPORTANT NOBLE PRIZE List OF WORLD

  1. Astronomers cannot be nominated for noble prize
  2. Marie curie twice won Noble Prize.
  3. First Nobel Prizes were awarded on 10 Dec: 1901.
  4. What country awards the Nobel peace prize- Norway
  5. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972-Nobody
  6. Who refused the Nobel Literature prize in 1958-Boris Pasternak
  7. Who was the first American to receive the Nobel Literature prize Sinclair Lewis
  8. Which Nobel Prize is not awarded annually in Stockholm Peace
  9. Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Prize in the field of peace.
  10. The New York Times received five Pulitzer prizes of 2009 for investigative, breaking news and international reporting, feature photography and criticism.
  11. A noted Indian wildlife biologist, Dr M.D. Madhusudan, Director of Nature Conservation Foundation
  12. Four persons have been awarded Nobel Prize twice.
  13. Van’t Hoff was the first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
  14. Wole Soyinka is a Nobel Prize winner for literature. He is from Nigeria.
  15. Which field was not included by Alfred Nobel originally… Economics
  16. Person getting the nobel peace prize in 2008 was of the country. Finland
  17. Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, more than 150 years ago. In what year was he born? Alfred Nobel was born in 1833
  18. What did Alfred’s father, Immanuel, do for a living? Alfred’s father was an engineer and inventor.
  19. Alfred Nobel never married.
  20. A future Nobel Laureate worked for a short period of time as Alfred Nobel’s secretary. Who? Bertha von Suttner
  21. Alfred Nobel died on 10 December 1896, but not in Sweden, his home country. Where did he die? Alfred Nobel died in San Remo, Italy.
  22. Why did Alfred Nobel establish a prize in his will? Alfred Nobel wanted to award the greatest benefits to mankind.
  23. Which Nobel category does not yet have a single female laureate? Economics
  24. Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics? Roentgen.
  25. Which single winner won the most number of Nobel Prizes? International Committee of the Red Cross.
  26. Who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Rabindranath Tagore
  27. Mathematicsis not a valid Nobel Prize category.
  28. In what year did the most people decline their Nobel Prize? 1939
  29. Who was the only person to win the Nobel Prize twice — in Peace and Chemistry? Linus Pauling
  30. Who was the only person to win the Nobel Prize twice — in both Physics and Chemistry? Marie Curie
  31. Name the six categories for which the prizes are awarded. Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.
  32. For which category was a Nobel Prize given starting 1969? Economics.
  33. Who awards the Peace Prize? The Norwegian Nobel Committee.
  34. Max Planck received the noble prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of: energy quanta
  35. Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  36. Rabindra Nath Tagore was the first Indian/South Asian to win Nobel Prize. (Literature in 1931).
  37. Former US Vice-President Al Gore has won Noble Peace Prize 2007 for his campaign against Global Warming.
  38. Mr Gore won an Oscar for his climate change film An Inconvenient Truth
  39. The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph Johnson Bunche
  40. Rabindarnath Tagore won first Nobel Prize from South Asia.
  41. The first Muslim Nobel Laureate was: Anwar Sadaat of Egypt
  42. Nobel Prize holder UN institutions…..UNHCR, UAEA
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