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A new study finds those who won Nobel Prizes between 1901 and 1950 lived about 2 years longer than nominees who didn't win.
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Who turned penicillin into a usable medicine?
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed penicillin into a usable drug in the early 1940s, and they shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alexander Fleming.
How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 at age 35, making him the youngest winner at the time.
Who won a Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccines?
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that made mRNA vaccines possible.
Who won the Nobel Prize for the blue LED?
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue LED, which made bright, energy-saving white LED lighting possible.
How was graphene discovered?
Scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, using Scotch tape in 2004 and won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
What are buckyballs?
Buckminsterfullerene, or "buckyballs," are soccer ball-shaped molecules of 60 carbon atoms discovered in 1985, which earned a Nobel Prize in 1996.
What did Alfred Nobel invent?
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by stabilizing nitroglycerin, a nitrogen compound, and later used his fortune to create the Nobel Prizes.
What did Mother Teresa do with her Nobel Prize banquet?
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and asked that the banquet be canceled and the money given to the poor.
When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize?
Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Did Tolstoy win a Nobel Prize?
Leo Tolstoy was nominated for the Nobel Prize many times but never won.
How did a jellyfish lead to a Nobel Prize?
A glowing protein from the crystal jelly led to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
What did Einstein win the Nobel Prize for?
Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining the photoelectric effect, not for his theory of relativity.
What did Einstein do with his Nobel Prize money?
Albert Einstein gave his Nobel Prize money to his ex-wife, Mileva Marić, as part of their divorce settlement.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she's the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, physics and chemistry.
Did Marie Curie's daughter win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie's daughter Irène Joliot-Curie won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
What is the Turing Award?
The Turing Award is often called the "Nobel Prize of computing."
Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for black hole research?
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for black hole research.
Who won a Nobel Prize for inventing the blue LED?
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the blue LED, which made bright white LED lighting possible.
Did the inventors of the transistor win a Nobel Prize?
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor.
Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics?
Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering X-rays.
Who won the Nobel Prize for insulin?
Frederick Banting and John Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, and Banting shared his prize money with Charles Best.
Who sequenced insulin?
Frederick Sanger won a Nobel Prize for working out the structure of insulin.
Who is the youngest Nobel Prize winner in medicine?
Frederick Banting was 32 when he won the Nobel Prize, making him the youngest winner in physiology or medicine.
Who discovered blood types?
Karl Landsteiner discovered the main human blood types in 1901 and won the Nobel Prize in 1930.
When was the first successful kidney transplant?
The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 between identical twins in Boston, and surgeon Joseph Murray later won a Nobel Prize.
Who won the Nobel Prize for MRI?
Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield won the 2003 Nobel Prize for MRI.
Who won the Nobel Prize for CRISPR?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for CRISPR.