The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in various fields. Linus Pauling is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, while Marie Curie is the only woman to have won two. The International Committee of the Red Cross has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times. The prizes are awarded every year on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. Hitler banned Germans from accepting Nobel prizes in 1936.
The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics and peace, and American chemist Linus Pauling is the only person to have won two or more Nobel Prizes that he has not shared with others. Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. Polish chemist and physicist Marie Curie is the only woman to have two or more Nobel Prizes: in Physics in 1903, which she shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and in chemistry in 1911. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963.
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The Curie family has a total of five Nobel laureates. In addition to Pierre and Marie’s awards, daughter Irene and her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, shared the 1935 chemistry prize, and daughter Eve’s husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., received the 1965 Peace Prize on behalf of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The Nobel Prizes are awarded every year on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who wanted his property to finance the prizes.
Adolf Hitler passed a law in 1936 that forbade Germans from accepting Nobel prizes.
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