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Total categories: 6

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Physiology or Medicine
• Literature
• Peace
• Economic Science

First awarded: 10 December 1901

Location: Stockholm, Sweden (the Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway)

Additional information

• Original categories (1901) were 5 
• 6th category was added in 1968 as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
• The other Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
• The Peace Prize is awarded annually on 10 December.
• Established: According to the will of Alfred Nobel.

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• Madam Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize.
• First Nobel Prize: Physics (1903)
• Second Nobel Prize: Chemistry (1911)
• She is best known for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
• She discovered the elements Radium and Polonium.

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• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany) was the first male Nobel Prize winner.
• He received the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
• He was awarded for the discovery of X-rays (1895).

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• Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993.
• First black president of South Africa: May 10, 1994, to 1999.
• Nelson Mandela International Day: July 18.
• Imprisoned in 1962, served 27 years in prison.
• Died on December 5, 2013.

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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 on 9 October 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.

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• 2025: Maria Corina Machado
• 2024: Nihon Hidankyo — Japan
• 2023: Narges Mohammadi
• 2022: Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, and Center for Civil Liberties
• 2021: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

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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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• Name: Shirin Ebadi
• Country: Iran
• Award: Nobel Peace Prize
• Year: 2003
• Recognition: Human rights and democracy

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