Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

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Nobel Prize is arguably the world’s biggest prize. People do tremendous work all through their lives in hope to achieve the feat of winning the Nobel Prize — but so far less than 1000 people have been honored this prestigious prize. You will, however, be surprised that age has nothing to do with winning the world’s greatest laurel. The youngest winner of Nobel Prize is Malala Yousafzai — a brave Pakistani girl who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of only 17 years. Malala is far younger than the person behind her, Lawrence Bragg. Do you know who all are the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize? Well, here we present the list!

From Dashamlav Knowledge Base, we have compiled the list of people who won the Nobel prize at the age of 35 of less. Here we go!

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Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

Youngest Nobel Prize Winners
Age at the time of win	Winner	Year	Prize Category
17 years	Malala Yousafzai	2014	The Nobel Peace Prize
25 years	Lawrence Bragg	1915	The Nobel Prize in Physics
31 years	Werner Heisenberg	1932	The Nobel Prize in Physics
31 years	Paul A.M. Dirac	1933	The Nobel Prize in Physics
31 years	Carl D. Anderson	1936	The Nobel Prize in Physics
31 years	Tsung-Dao Lee	1957	The Nobel Prize in Physics
32 years	Rudolf Mössbauer	1961	The Nobel Prize in Physics
32 years	Frederick G. Banting	1923	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
32 years	Mairead Corrigan	1976	The Nobel Peace Prize
32 years	Tawakkol Karman	2011	The Nobel Peace Prize
33 years	Brian D. Josephson	1973	The Nobel Prize in Physics
33 years	Joshua Lederberg	1958	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
33 years	Betty Williams	1976	The Nobel Peace Prize
33 years	Rigoberta Menchú Tum	1992	The Nobel Peace Prize
34 years	Donald A. Glaser	1960	The Nobel Prize in Physics
34 years	James Watson	1962	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
35 years	Guglielmo Marconi	1909	The Nobel Prize in Physics
35 years	Max von Laue	1914	The Nobel Prize in Physics
35 years	Arthur H. Compton	1927	The Nobel Prize in Physics
35 years	Chen Ning Yang	1957	The Nobel Prize in Physics
35 years	Frédéric Joliot	1935	The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
35 years	Martin Luther King Jr.	1964	The Nobel Peace Prize

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