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• Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different natural sciences.
• She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.
• She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
• She was awarded for her pioneering work on radioactivity.

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• Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
• He was honored for his decades of effort in finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts.
• He served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981).

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• The United States of America has received the highest number of Nobel Prizes since the Nobel Prize was established.

Top 5 Countries by Nobel Laureates:

• United States – 403
• United Kingdom – 137
• Germany – 111
• France – 71
• Sweden – 32

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• The World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.
• The Nobel Committee recognized WFP for its efforts to combat hunger and prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war.
• WFP is a United Nations agency focused on food assistance and food security.
• The award was announced on 9 October 2020.

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• The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 2018.
• It was postponed because of a sexual-abuse scandal and conflict of interest involving the Swedish Academy.
• The 2018 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Peace were awarded.
• The 2018 Literature Prize was later awarded to Olga Tokarczuk in 2019.

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