1. Only four people have won the prize twice ( Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Fredrick Sanger)
2. Richard Kuhn, Gerhard Domagk,Adolf Butenandt (all Germans) and Boris Pasternak (Russia) were forced to decline the prize by their national authorities.
3. Only one pair of siblings have won the coveted honour, Jan Tinbergens and Nikolaas Tinbergens (Netherlands).
4. International Red Cross has won the Nobel Prize for peace three times with its founder, Henry Durant winning the inaugaural Peace Nobel Prize.
5. Alfred Nobel's father Immanuel Nobel invented Plywood.
6. The honour is never given posthumously.
7. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin were nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
8. Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated in 1948. Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded that year (Refer 6 for explanation).
9. Between 1901 and 2012 only 44 nobel prizes were awarded to women.
2. Richard Kuhn, Gerhard Domagk,Adolf Butenandt (all Germans) and Boris Pasternak (Russia) were forced to decline the prize by their national authorities.
3. Only one pair of siblings have won the coveted honour, Jan Tinbergens and Nikolaas Tinbergens (Netherlands).
4. International Red Cross has won the Nobel Prize for peace three times with its founder, Henry Durant winning the inaugaural Peace Nobel Prize.
5. Alfred Nobel's father Immanuel Nobel invented Plywood.
6. The honour is never given posthumously.
7. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin were nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
8. Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated in 1948. Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded that year (Refer 6 for explanation).
9. Between 1901 and 2012 only 44 nobel prizes were awarded to women.
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