1. The Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously.
2. Four laureates were awarded Nobel Prize twice, John Bardeen for Physics, Frederick Sanger for Chemistry, Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry) Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace).
3. Between 1901-2018- a total number of 590 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to date to 935 individuals (904 men/51 women) and 24 organisations.
4. Malala Yousafzai (12 July 1997, Swat, Pakistan) is the youngest of all to win the Nobel Prize. She received the prize in 2014 when she was only17.
5. Jean-Paul Sartre refused to accept Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1964, saying he always declined official honours.
6. Four laureates were forced by their Governments to reject the Nobel Prize. Three Germans-Richard Kuhn in 1938 (Chemistry), Adolf Butenandt in 1939 (Chemistry), Gerhard Domagk in1939 (Physiology or Medicine) and the Soviet Union pressured Boris Pasternak to decline the prize in Literature in 1958.
