Nobel Prize 2020: The Physics Prize is awarded today: the only scientist who has won it twice | WORLD

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics continues today for the second day.

To date, 113 Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded, dating back to 1901. Only six years of the Physics Prize have been awarded, mainly due to the two world wars of the last century. Of the 113 Nobel prizes so far, 47 have been awarded to one scientist, 32 have been awarded to two Nobel prizes, and the remaining 34 have been awarded to three at the same time. It should be remembered that yesterday the British Michael Houghton and the Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

In total, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 212 scientists, one of whom, John Bardin, is the only one to have won it twice, in 1956 and 1972. The youngest Nobel Prize winner was 25 years old, Lawrence Bragg, who won it in 1915. with his father, while the 96-year-old ‘Arthur’ Askin, in 2018.

This particular Nobel Prize has been awarded to a woman three times, in 1903 (to Marie Curie, who also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911), in 1963 (Maria Gepert-Meyer) and in 2018 (Donna Strickland). The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a married couple, Marie and Pierre Curie in 1903. The prize is accompanied by the sum of nine million Swedish crowns.