Who is the youngest person to win a Nobel prize?
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Category Name Year of Award Age Physics William Lawrence Bragg 1915 25 Chemistry Frédéric Joliot 1935 35 Physiology or Medicine Frederick Banting 1923 32 Literature Rudyard Kipling 1907 42 This list is from the Nobel Prize website http://nobelprize.org/help/faq/
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 William Lawrence Bragg at age 25 1/2 of the prize Victoria University Manchester, United Kingdom Born March 31st, 1890 Died in 1971.
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The youngest person to receive a Nobel prize was Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Physics, 1915). He was 25 years old at the time. Bragg and his father, Sir William Henry Bragg, won the award jointly for their work with X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and crystal structure. The oldest person to receive the prize was Joseph Rotblat (Peace, 1995) for his work with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He was 87 years old at the time.
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