Nobel Prize | MCQs

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• Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

• Frederick Sanger won first Nobel Prize in 1958 and second in 1980.
• Frederick Sanger died in 2013 in England.

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1. Dr. Abdul Salam (1979)

2. Malala Yousafzai (2014)

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has "tied the knot" with her partner Asser Malik during an Islamic ceremony in Birmingham. 

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai got married on 9 November 2021 

About Malala Yousafzai

Born: 1997

Belongs: Mingora, Swat

Received Noble Prize in 2014

She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate 

International Malala Day is observed every year on July 12 

celebrate the life and legacy of Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

Malala Day theme 2023:  I am Malala

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Abdus Salam became the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize.

n 1979,  Dr. Abdul Salam won the Nobel Prize for physics.

Dr. Abdul Salam received Nobel Prize for combining two forces: 

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Total 6 Categories of Nobel Prize

1. Nobel Peace Prize
2. Nobel Prize in Literature
3. Nobel Prize in Physics
4. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
5. Nobel Prize in Chemistry
6. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

The first Nobel Prize was awarded in  1901

Nobel Prize in economics started in 1969

Nobel Prize is given in memory of Alfred Nobel

Nobel prize is awarded by (Sweden) expected Peace prize (Norway)

Alfred Nobel (Swedish chemist) initiated Nobel Prize. 

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The oldest Physics Laureate until presently was Raymond Davis Jr who, at age 88, won one quarter of the 2002 prize for “pioneering commitments to astronomy, in specific for the discovery of enormous neutrinos”.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2020 was awarded to three astrophysicists Roger Penrose from the UK, Reinhard Genzel from Germany, and Andrea Ghez from the USA.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”,

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Explanation

In October 2014, Malala, along with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi 

At age 17, she became the youngest person to receive this prize.

About Malala Yousafzai

Born: 1997

Belongs: Mingora, Swat

Received Noble Prize in 2014

She is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate

International Malala Day is observed every year on July 12 

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• Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

• Frederick Sanger won first Nobel Prize in 1958 and second in 1980.
• Frederick Sanger died in 2013 in England.

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About Literature Nobel Prize 2024

Winner: Han Kang

She is the author of South Korea.

She is the first woman of South Korea to win Nobel Prize in Literature.  

Additional Inormation: 

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse.

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