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Nobel Prizes Flashcards

1
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What nationality was chemist engineer inventor businessman and philanthropist Alfred Nobel?

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SWEDISH

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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?

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MARIE CURIE

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Which organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times?

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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

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In which city is the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony held each year?

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OSLO

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Who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect?

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

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Winston Churchill was awarded which of the Nobel Prizes in 1953?

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LITERATURE

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Which American civil rights campaigner was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance?

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MARTIN LUTHER KING

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Who is the only person to have won the Nobel Peace Prize and a Nobel Prize in a science?

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LINUS PAULING

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In 1907 who became the first British winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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RUDYARD KIPLING

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What is the maximum number of people that can share a Nobel Prize?

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THREE

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Who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to mediate a treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War?

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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Which advocate of monetarism and advisor to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976?

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MILTON FRIEDMAN

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13
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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?

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DDT

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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?

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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Who is the only posthumous winner of the Nobel Peace Prize winning the award in 1961?

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DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

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16
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In what year where the Nobel Prizes (except Economics) first awarded?

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1901

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17
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Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays?

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WILHELM RONTGEN

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Born in Gloucestershire who is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?

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FREDERICK SANGER

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Which British theoretical physicist shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrodinger?

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PAUL DIRAC

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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?

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VITAMINS

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21
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Which Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905?

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BERTHA VON SUTTNER

22
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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?

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JOHN BARDEEN

23
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Sharing the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi who is the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate? (Either name accepted)

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MALALA YOUSAFZAI

24
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Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 but was forced to decline the award by the Soviet Union?

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BORIS PASTERNAK

25
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What is the surname of the father and son who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915?

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BRAGG

26
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In 1902 who became the first British Nobel laureate for his work on the transmission of malaria?

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RONALD ROSS

27
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Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics becoming the first Nobel laureates in which branch of science?

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ASTROPHYSICS (OR ASTRONOMY)

28
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John Nash shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on which theory?

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GAME THEORY

29
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Jan (Economics 1969) and Niko (Physiology or Medicine 1973) are the only brothers to both win a Nobel Prize. What is their surname?

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TINBERGEN

30
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Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin?

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EMIL VON BEHRING

31
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In 1957 who became the first (and to date the only) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize to be born in Canada?

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LESTER B PEARSON

32
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The Nobel Prize amount (i.e. Prize money) is set at how many Swedish kronor (SEK) per full Nobel Prize?

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8 MILLION

33
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Donald Glaser was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of which device?

A

BUBBLE CHAMBER

34
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Which organisation won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its pioneering humanitarian work on several continents?

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MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES

35
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Which British scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of vitamin B12?

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DOROTHY (CROWFOOT) HODGKIN

36
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Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973 but declined the award?

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LE DUC THO

37
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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”?

A

FRITZ HABER

38
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Austen Chamberlain won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for work on which series of post-war agreements?

A

LOCARNO TREATIES

39
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Which novel was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Ernest Hemingway in 1954?

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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

40
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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)?

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ANDRE GEIM

41
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In 1973 who became the first Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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PATRICK WHITE

42
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The chemical element with atomic number 106 is named which American scientist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin mcmillan?

A

GLENN SEABORG

43
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Sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal” who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913?

A

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

44
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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”?

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GUSTAV DALEN

45
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In 2009 who became the first (and to date the only) woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

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ELINOR OSTROM

46
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What is the name of Neils Bohr’s son who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975?

A

AAGE BOHR

47
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How old was Doris Lessing when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?

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88

48
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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?

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BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

49
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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”?

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HIDEKI YUKAWA

50
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Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with his then-wife and their mentor John O’Keefe?

A

EDVARD MOSER

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