Youngest & Oldest Nobel Prize Winner
Spotlighting the top youngest and oldest Nobel Prize winners.
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Australian-born British Nobel laureate William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) is the youngest Nobel Laureate. He was physicist and crystallographer. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. His age at the time of awarding: 25years-8months-10days old. He shared the award with his father, Sir William Henry Bragg, “for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.” Sir William Bragg (the older) was born on July 2, 1862, a pioneer scientist in solid-state physics.
The oldest Nobel Laureate is Russian-born American Leonid Hurwicz, a prominent economist and mathematician. He was awarded Nobel Prize for Economics in 2007. He was 90years-3months-28days old.
Nobel Prizes are awarded on Alfred Nobel’s birthday, December 10. The laureate’s age is his or her age at the date of the award ceremony.
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Biochemist Max F. Perutz
Max Ferdinand Perutz, Biochemist
1962 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, studies in structures of haemoglobin and globular proteins.
British Biochemist Max F. Perutz
Max Ferdinand Perutz, FRS, OM, CBE (May 19, 1914, Vienna, Austria – February 6, 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist. Both his parents, Hugo Perutz and Dely Goldschmidt, came from families of textile manufacturers who had made their fortune in the 19th century by the introduction of mechanical spinning and weaving into the Austrian monarchy.
Perutz shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.
In 1936, after completing his first university degree at the University of Vienna, Perutz became a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge, in crystallography research team under J.D. Bernal. He completed his PhD. under William Lawrence Bragg. In Cambridge he started to work on haemoglobin, which was to occupy him for most of his professional career.
Max Perutz won the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979. At Cambridge he founded and chaired (1962–79) The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.
Perutz’s contributions to molecular biology in Cambridge are documented in The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press 1992).
Sources:
“Max F. Perutz – Biography”. Nobelprize.org. 18 Jul 2011. nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1962/perutz-bio. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
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American Chemist Linus Carl Pauling
Linus Pauling is known for his Theory of Chemical Bond.
Linus Pauling (1901-1994), American chemist, is famous for his Theory of the Chemical Bond, a milestone in the development of modern chemistry.
Born today: February 28.
Pauling received two unshared Nobel Prizes:
* 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for applying quantum mechanics to chemical bonding study, relating to molecular structures
* 1962 Nobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Pauling was the first to use the quantum mechanics to explain chemical bonding.
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Robert Burns Woodward: Synthesis of Organic Substances
American Chemist Robert Woodward, is known for his synthesis of complex organic substances, including cholesterol and vitamin B12.
Great Scientist Datebook: April 10.
Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979), was an American chemist born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of an English father and Scottish mother.
He became professor Harvard and was a Nobel laureate, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1965 in recognition of his synthesis of a number of complex organic substances including cholesterol, cortisone, strychnine, reserpine, chlorophyll, lysergic acid, and some others.
Robert Woodward worked closely with Roald Hoffman on theoretical studies of chemical reactions. His contributions are significant especially in the area of organic chemistry.
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