Two Nobel Laureates have Declined the Nobel Prize! Jean-Paul Sartre, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours. Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. They were awarded the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. Le Doc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason.

The Oldest Nobel Laureates AgeNameCategory/YearDate of birth 90Leonid HurwiczEconomic Sciences 200721 August 1917 89Lloyd ShapleyEconomic Sciences 20122 June 1923 88Raymond Davis Jr.Physics 200214 October 1914 88Doris LessingLiterature 200722 October 1919 87Yoichiro NambuPhysics 200818 January 1921 87Vitaly L. GinzburgPhysics 20034 October 1916 87Peyton RousMedicine 19665 October 1879 87Joseph RotblatPeace 19954 November 1908 87Karl von FrischMedicine 197320 November 1886 85Ferdinand BuissonPeace 192720 December 1841 85John B. FennChemistry 200215 June 1917 85Theodor MommsenLiterature 190230 November 1817 85Willard S. BoylePhysics 200919 August 1929 CategoryNameYear of AwardAge of Nobel Laureate PhysicsRaymond Davis Jr.200288 ChemistryJohn B. Fenn200285 Physiology or MedicinePeyton Rous196687 LiteratureDoris Lessing200788 PeaceJoseph Rotblat199587 Economic SciencesLeonid Hurwicz200790

The Youngest Nobel Laureates: AgeNameCategory/YearDate of birth 25Lawrence BraggPhysics 191531 March 1890 31Werner HeisenbergPhysics 19325 December 1901 31Tsung-Dao LeePhysics 195724 November 1926 31Carl D. AndersonPhysics 19363 September 1905 31Paul A. M. DiracPhysics 19338 August 1902 32Frederick G. BantingMedicine 192314 November 1891 32Tawakkol KarmanPeace 20117 February 1979 32Rudolf MössbauerPhysics 196131 January 1929 32Mairead CorriganPeace 197627 January 1944 33Joshua LederbergMedicine 195823 May 1925 33Betty WilliamsPeace 197622 May 1943 33Rigoberta Menchú TumPeace 19929 January 1959 33Brian D. JosephsonPhysics 19734 January 1940 CategoryNameYear of AwardAge of Nobel Laureate PhysicsWilliam Lawrence Bragg191525 ChemistryFrédéric Joliot193535 Physiology or MedicineFrederick Banting192332 LiteratureRudyard Kipling190742 PeaceTawakkol Karman201132 Economic SciencesKenneth J. Arrow197251

Nobel Prize Awarded Women: The Nobel Prize in Literature: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny" The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 Elfriede Jelinek "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 Wislawa Szymborska "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Toni Morrison "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 Nadine Gordimer "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 Nelly Sachs "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 Gabriela Mistral "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 Pearl Buck "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 Sigrid Undset "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 Grazia Deledda "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" The Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work" The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Leymah Gbowee "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work" The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Tawakkol Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work" The Nobel Peace Prize 2004 Wangari Muta Maathai "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" The Nobel Peace Prize 2003 Shirin Ebadi "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children" The Nobel Peace Prize 1997 Jody Williams "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines" The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples" The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" The Nobel Peace Prize 1982 Alva Myrdal The Nobel Peace Prize 1979 Mother Teresa The Nobel Peace Prize 1976 Betty Williams The Nobel Peace Prize 1976 Mairead Corrigan The Nobel Peace Prize 1946 Emily Greene Balch The Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Jane Addams The Nobel Peace Prize 1905 Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"

Nobel Prize Awarded Women: The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 44 times between 1901 and 2012. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 43 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2012. The Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 Irène Joliot-Curie "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Elizabeth H. Blackburn "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Carol W. Greider "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 Linda B. Buck "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 Gertrude B. Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 Barbara McClintock "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 Rosalyn Yalow "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"