Famous Nobel Laureates

Marie Curie

Physics 1903 (radioactivity) and Chemistry 1911 (discovery of polonium and radium).

💡 Did you know? She remains the only person with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

Albert Einstein

Physics 1921, awarded for explaining the photoelectric effect.

💡 Did you know? The theory of relativity was seen as too controversial by the committee at the time.

Alexander Fleming

Medicine 1945, together with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

💡 Did you know? Fleming noticed the effect in 1928 thanks to an accidentally mouldy bacterial culture.

Martin Luther King

For his non-violent struggle against racial segregation in the USA.

💡 Did you know? At 35 he was one of the youngest peace laureates of his era.

Nelson Mandela

For the peaceful ending of apartheid; a year later he became President of South Africa.

💡 Did you know? Mandela spent 27 years in prison before winning the prize and becoming South Africa's first black president.

Malala Yousafzai

Nobel Peace Prize 2014 at just 17, for her fight for the right to education.

💡 Did you know? Malala won the prize at 17: the youngest laureate ever, just two years after the Taliban attack.

Linus Pauling

Chemistry 1954 (the chemical bond) and Peace 1962 (against nuclear weapons testing).

💡 Did you know? Other double laureates always had to share their prize: Pauling did not.