Answers to Quiz - 6

1) In the history of Nobel Prize, only four persons have received the prize twice. Three of them are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen. Who is the fourth?

Frederick Sanger in 1958 and 1980 both times for chemistry

2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?

Before 1974, someone who had been nominated but later died could get a prize. The rules were changed so a prize can only go to a deceased person who had won the prize, but died before receiving it

3) What is the Abel Prize?

The prize started by the Norwegian Government in 2001
with the intention of being a substitute for the missing Nobel Prize in Mathematics

4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?

He designed the medal for the Nobel Peace Prize

5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans?

The name of the Winner for the Economics Prize is engraved on the edge of the medal, which is less obvious. Their medals were mixed up during the presentation in Stockholm and the winners went back to their respective countries with the wrong medals. As this happened during the Cold War, it took four years of diplomatic efforts to have the medals exchanged to their rightful owners

6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?

Economics

7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?

Jean-Paul Sartre

8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?

International Committee of the Red Cross in 1917, 1944 and 1963

9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?

Jan Tinbergen (1969 Economics) and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973 Medicine)