Interesting numbers of the Nobel Prize

Who is the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize, and who is the youngest? How many women won this prestigious award? And how many couples have their names on the 'golden board'? Here are some answers to your questions, data from the Nobel Organization's figures, October 4.

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- The oldest person to win the Nobel Prize is the Russian-American scientist Leonid Hurwicz. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at age 90. And just a few months after that great joy, he died in June 2008.

- Also in 2007, British actress Doris Lessing became the oldest to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her name was called when she was 87 years old. The writer then called the prize a "disaster" because it left her with no time to write.

- British scientist Lawrence Bragg won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 when he was only 25 years old, the youngest person to win the Nobel Prize in history. In addition, German scientist Werner Karl Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 when he was 31 years old. And the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is British writer Rudyard Kipling with the award in 1907 when he was 42 years old.

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- The average age of all Nobel laureates in all fields from 1901 to 2012 is 59 years old.

- Since 1901 when the first Nobel Prize was awarded so far, 44 women have been honored, including twice by Marie Curie, and the number of men is 795. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics was Elinor Ostrom in 2009. And only two women won the Nobel Prize for Physics, most recently in 1963, while 191 men recorded their names in this field.

- From 1901 to 2012, a total of 834 individuals and 21 organizations received the Nobel Prize, including a few who were honored more than once.

- There are six pairs of fathers and sons who won this prestigious award, while only one pair of fathers and daughters and a couple of mothers and daughters were among the winners. Three couples were also honored in the Nobel Prize, including the famous French couple Joliot-Curie.

- Six people refused to accept the award. Among them was the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964 and the Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho in 1973 did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded with the then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Fascist tycoon Adolf Hitler banned three German scientists Richard Kuhn (Chemistry Prize 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry 1939) and Gerhard Domagk (Medicine 1939), and the Soviet government forced writer Boris Pasternak rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.

- Three Nobel Peace Prize winners while in prison are German journalist Carl von Ossietzky (1935), Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (2010 ). 21 years after being announced the winner, Aung San Suu Kyi on June 16, 2012 had the opportunity to Oslo (Norway) and presented her acceptance speech.

- The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has a record number of 259 nominations. The names of the nominees and the content of the committee discussions are kept for 50 years.