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Top 10 youngest Nobel Prize winners in history

Talented youth is everything when it comes to these Nobel Prize winners. The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the world. In 1895, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel spent most of his fortune as rewards in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, physiology and medicine, and peace. Here are the 10 youngest Nobel Prize winners in history.

1. Malala Yousafzai

Malala is currently the world's youngest Nobel laureate. She won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 in 2014. She was born in rural Swat, Pakistan. She was shot when she spoke out against the oppression of girls in her homeland. When she recovered, she continued to fight for children's right to education and now lives in England.

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2. William Lawrence Bragg

William held the title of youngest Nobel laureate for 99 years, before his record was broken by Malala Yousafzai. He was born in Australia, graduated from Victoria University, Manchester, UK. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for inventing a device to analyze crystal structure using X-rays.
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3. Nadia Murad

Nadia was born in 1993, is a Yazidi - Iraqi human rights activist, currently living in Germany. In 2014, a terrorist organization kidnapped and held her for three months before escaping. In 2018, Nadia was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to end sexual violence and armed conflict.
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4. Werner Heisenberg

In 1932, German scientist Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics. A year later, 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics again. Heisenberg also made major contributions to cosmic ray theory and ferromagnetism. He is one of the founders of the theory of quantum mechanics.

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5. Paul Dirac

In 1933, at the age of 31, Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is considered one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

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6. Carl David Anderson

In 1932, Anderson, then only 27 years old, discovered the positron. Four years later, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and became one of the youngest Nobel laureates in the world. He worked at the California Institute of Technology, where he spent most of his academic research career.
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7. Tsung-Dao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee (Li Chinh Dao) is a Chinese-American physicist. Ly Chinh Dao's instructor was famous physicist Enrico Fermi - who won the Nobel Prize in 1938.

In 1957, Ly Chinh Dao, then 31 years old, won the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Duong Chan Ninh. His research led to innovative discoveries about elementary particles.
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8. Rudolf Mößbauer

In 1961, at the age of 32, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "research on the resonant absorption of gamma rays" and the Mössbauer effect. Based on his discovery, scientists can further study the energies of atomic nuclei and how they are affected by their surroundings and other phenomena.
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9. Frederick Banting

Frederick was a Canadian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923, at the age of 32. He discovered insulin in pancreatic extracts of dogs. He also injected insulin into a diabetic dog. After treatment, he discovered that this therapy could lower the animals' blood sugar levels to normal levels. He was the first person to use insulin to treat diabetes.
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10. Mairead Corrigan

Mairead was born in Belfast, northern Ireland in 1944. In 1976, at the age of 32, she won the Nobel Peace Prize among many other awards. She was the founder of the “Northern Ireland Peace Movement”, which was later renamed the “People's Peace Community” - a group dedicated to ending the brutal conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

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