Nobel Prizes Flashcards
What nationality was chemist engineer inventor businessman and philanthropist Alfred Nobel?
SWEDISH
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the only woman to win in two fields and the only person to win in multiple sciences?
MARIE CURIE
Which organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times?
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
In which city is the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony held each year?
OSLO
Who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Winston Churchill was awarded which of the Nobel Prizes in 1953?
LITERATURE
Which American civil rights campaigner was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance?
MARTIN LUTHER KING
Who is the only person to have won the Nobel Peace Prize and a Nobel Prize in a science?
LINUS PAULING
In 1907 who became the first British winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
RUDYARD KIPLING
What is the maximum number of people that can share a Nobel Prize?
THREE
Who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to mediate a treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Which advocate of monetarism and advisor to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976?
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Paul Muller won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal qualities of which chemical which is now banned from agricultural use?
DDT
Up to 2016 (when Bob Dylan became the second winner) who was the only person to have won both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Who is the only posthumous winner of the Nobel Peace Prize winning the award in 1961?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
In what year where the Nobel Prizes (except Economics) first awarded?
1901
Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays?
WILHELM RONTGEN
Born in Gloucestershire who is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?
FREDERICK SANGER
Which British theoretical physicist shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrodinger?
PAUL DIRAC
Frederick Hopkins won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of which group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition?
VITAMINS
Which Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905?
BERTHA VON SUTTNER
In 1972 who became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field having also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956?
JOHN BARDEEN
Sharing the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi who is the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate? (Either name accepted)
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 but was forced to decline the award by the Soviet Union?
BORIS PASTERNAK
What is the surname of the father and son who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915?
BRAGG
In 1902 who became the first British Nobel laureate for his work on the transmission of malaria?
RONALD ROSS
Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics becoming the first Nobel laureates in which branch of science?
ASTROPHYSICS (OR ASTRONOMY)
John Nash shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on which theory?
GAME THEORY
Jan (Economics 1969) and Niko (Physiology or Medicine 1973) are the only brothers to both win a Nobel Prize. What is their surname?
TINBERGEN
Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin?
EMIL VON BEHRING
In 1957 who became the first (and to date the only) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize to be born in Canada?
LESTER B PEARSON
The Nobel Prize amount (i.e. Prize money) is set at how many Swedish kronor (SEK) per full Nobel Prize?
8 MILLION
Donald Glaser was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of which device?
BUBBLE CHAMBER
Which organisation won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its pioneering humanitarian work on several continents?
MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES
Which British scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of vitamin B12?
DOROTHY (CROWFOOT) HODGKIN
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973 but declined the award?
LE DUC THO
Known as the “father of chemical warfare” who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for “the synthesis of ammonia from its elements”?
FRITZ HABER
Austen Chamberlain won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for work on which series of post-war agreements?
LOCARNO TREATIES
Which novel was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Ernest Hemingway in 1954?
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Who is the only person to have been awarded a Nobel Prize (for work on graphene) and an Ig Nobel Prize (for magnetically levitating a frog)?
ANDRE GEIM
In 1973 who became the first Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
PATRICK WHITE
The chemical element with atomic number 106 is named which American scientist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin mcmillan?
GLENN SEABORG
Sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal” who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913?
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 for his “invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys”?
GUSTAV DALEN
In 2009 who became the first (and to date the only) woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?
ELINOR OSTROM
What is the name of Neils Bohr’s son who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975?
AAGE BOHR
How old was Doris Lessing when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
88
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 the first woman to win the prize unshared for discovering “mobile genetic elements” commonly known as jumping genes?
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
In 1949 who became the first Japanese Nobel laureate “for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”?
HIDEKI YUKAWA
Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with his then-wife and their mentor John O’Keefe?
EDVARD MOSER
