Who is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
- A.Linus Pauling
- B.Marie Curie
- C.Albert Einstein
- D.Frederick Sanger
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Marie Curie. She shared the Physics Prize in 1903 for work on radioactivity, becoming the first woman laureate, and won the Chemistry Prize alone in 1911 for the discovery of radium and polonium. No one else has won in two separate scientific categories.
Option A, Linus Pauling, won twice as well, in Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962, but Peace is not a science, so his distinction is different: he is the only person with two unshared prizes. Option C, Albert Einstein, won a single Physics Prize, awarded for the photoelectric effect rather than for relativity. Option D, Frederick Sanger, won the Chemistry Prize twice, in 1958 and 1980, which is two prizes in the same science. Read such questions carefully, because each of these names is a record of its own kind.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Nobel Prizes were instituted under the will of
- A.Alfred Nobel
- B.Andrew Carnegie
- C.Joseph Pulitzer
- D.Cecil Rhodes
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The Swedish chemist who invented dynamite signed his last will in 1895 and left most of his fortune to endow prizes for those who had conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.
Read the full explanation →In which year were the Nobel Prizes awarded for the first time?
- A.1895
- B.1896
- C.1901
- D.1913
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Alfred Nobel's estate had to be settled and the Nobel Foundation established before any prize could be given, so the first awards came five years after his death.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was instituted in 1968 by
- A.The Nobel Foundation
- B.The central bank of Sweden
- C.The Swedish Academy
- D.The Norwegian parliament
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Sveriges Riksbank founded the prize in 1968 to mark its three hundredth anniversary, and it was awarded for the first time in 1969.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in which city?
- A.Stockholm
- B.Oslo
- C.Geneva
- D.Copenhagen
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Alfred Nobel's will directed that the Peace Prize be decided by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament, while the other prizes were left to Swedish institutions, and the Peace Prize is therefore announced and presented in the Norwegian capital.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian and the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
- A.C. V. Raman
- B.Rabindranath Tagore
- C.Mother Teresa
- D.Har Gobind Khorana
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He also wrote the national anthems sung in India and in Bangladesh.
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