William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel Prize winner at age 25 in 1915. Nobel Prizes are awarded in six categories and the average age of winners has increased over time. The oldest living laureate as of 2012 was Rita Levi-Montalcini, who was 103.
As of 2012, the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize was William Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 when he and his father, Sir William Bragg, jointly won the physics prize in 1915. Their investigations have been important to the development of x-ray technology. William Lawrence Bragg was knighted in 1941.
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As of 2012, the oldest living Nobel laureate was neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who shared the Physiology or Medicine prize with Stanley Cohen in 1986. Dr. Levi-Montalcini turned 103 in April 2012.
Nobel Prizes are awarded in the categories of chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, peace and physics.
During the 1920s, Nobel laureates were, on average, in their mid-40s. The average age of a Nobel Prize winner has steadily increased over the years until it exceeded 60 in 2000.
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