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• Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2023.
• The award was announced on 6 October 2023 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
• She received the prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.

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• 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature László Krasznahorkai (Nationality:  Hungarian).
• Purpose: For his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art
• Date: 9 October 2025 (announcement) 10 December 2025 (ceremony)
• Location: Stockholm, Sweden
• Presented by: Swedish Academy
• First award: 1901

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• Nobel Literature Prize 2024
• Winner: Han Kang
• Nationality:  South Korean
• Purpose: For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

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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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• Nobel Prizes are awarded by Sweden.
• Founder: Alfred Nobel
• First Awarded: 1901
• Award Ceremony: 10 December every year
• Awarded in Sweden: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Economics
• Awarded in Norway: Peace Prize

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• Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.
• He received the award for his contribution to the Electroweak Theory, which unified the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

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• Born: 29 January 1926, Jhang, Punjab
• Died: 21 November 1996
• Ph.D.: 1952, Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
• Achievement: First Pakistani Nobel laureate and second Muslim Nobel laureate

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• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year on 10 December in Oslo, Norway.
• The ceremony is held at Oslo City Hall.
• 10 December marks the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel in 1896.
• The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize awarded in Norway.
• Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Physiology or Medicine Prizes: Stockholm, Sweden

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• The Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901
• Inaugurated on December 10, 1901
• Awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel

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Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of

1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3.  Physiology/Medicine
4.  Literature
5.  Peace
6.  Economics.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to a political leader from Venezuela.
• She is Maria Corina Machado, an opposition leader.
• She was honored for promoting democratic rights and free elections.

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• The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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• The 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics was jointly awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson.
• They were honored for improvements in auction theory and new auction formats.
• Both are well-known scholars from Stanford University.

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• Harold Pinter was a famous British (UK) playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
• He was known for his unique writing style called “Pinteresque.”
• Nobel Prize field: Literature
• Award year: 2005
• Born: 1930
• Died: 2008

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