The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

Alfred Nobel, an inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, businessman and writer, outlined the ... has been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. Linus Pauling, an American chemist and anti-nuclear ...

Morrison was an African American novelist and editor who passed away in 2019 at the age of 88. She won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1993 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Barack Obama also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. Unfortunately, no one is sure why Obama was the recipient. He had by that time accomplished no towering achievement. And unless one counts the ...