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• The Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is the only person who has declined the Nobel Peace Prize.
• They were both awarded the prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord.
• Le Duc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason.
  

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• Narges Mohammadi is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter.
• Her brave struggle for freedom of expression and the right of independence has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime in Iran has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
• Narges Mohammadi is still in prison.
  

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• Anne L'Huillier  is a French physicist, and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
• In 2003 she and her group beat the world record with the smallest laser pulse of 170 attoseconds.
• In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

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• The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry to date is John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old when he was awarded the chemistry prize in 2019.
• He is also the oldest laureate to be awarded in all prize categories.
  

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Two people have declined the Nobel Prize in Literature

1. Boris Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, “Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country (Soviet Union) to decline the Prize”.
2. Jean Paul Sartre, the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honors.

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Louis E. Brus is the S. L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and one of the three winners of the Nobel prize in Chemistry (2023).

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The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in literature to date is Doris Lessing, who was 88 years old when she was awarded the Prize in 2007.

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• Michel Talagrand has been awarded the 2024 Abel Prize for his contributions to probability theory and stochastic processes is mathematician from France. 

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Georgi Gospodinov is the first person from Bulgaria to receive International Booker prize in the year 2023.

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5 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 

1. Marie Curie in 1903
2.  Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963
3.  Donna Strickland in 2018
4.  Andrea Ghez in 2020 
5.  Anne L’Huillier in 2023.