Youngest Nobel Prize Laureates
On Friday, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to be awarded a Nobel Prize, sharing the 2014 Peace Prize for her work on children's rights. Here's a look at the youngest people to win a Nobel prize throughout the history of the award.
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Youngest Nobel Prize LaureatesGermany's Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 at the age of 31, "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen". -
Youngest Nobel Prize LaureatesChinese Tsung-Dao Lee, at 31, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1957, shared with Chen Ning Yang "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". -
Youngest Nobel Prize LaureatesTawakkol Karman, 32 from Yemen, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, shared with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".
