Nobel Prize 2021

NOBEL PRIZE 

• The Nobel Prize are five separate prizes awarded annually, that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind.”
• Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace 
• In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) funded the establishment of the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to also be administered by the Nobel Foundation
• Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, but if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize is presented.
• The prize money is given in Swedish Krona , SEK.

The Nobel Prizes, begun in 1901, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, begun in 1969. 

TRIVIA

• The youngest Nobel laureate is Ms Malala Yousafzai who was awarded the Peace Prize 2014 when she was 17 years old. 
• The oldest Nobel laureate is John B. Goodenough who was awarded the Prize in Chemistry in 2019 when he was 97 years old.
• Laureates who have received Multiple Nobel Prizes: 
• Marie Curie received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911).
• The International Committee of the Red Cross received the prize three times. Nobel Peace Prize (1917, 1944, 1963).
• Linus Pauling received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954) and Nobel Peace Prize (1962).
• John Bardeen received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Physics (1956, 1972).
• Frederick Sanger received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958, 1980).
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; received the prize twice. Nobel Peace Prize (1954, 1981).

List of Nobel Prize winners from India -

• Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - Literature
• CV Raman (1930) - Physics
• Har Gobind Khurana (1968) - Medicine
• Mother Teresa (1979) - Peace
• Subhramanyan Chandrashekhar (1983) - Physics
• Amartya Sen (1998) - Economics
• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009) - Chemistry.
• Kailash Satyarthi (2014) - Peace
• Abhijit Banerjee (2019) - Economics