# The youngest Nobel Prize winners in history

Malala Yousafzai was just 17 when she won the Peace Prize, and Lawrence Bragg 25 when he shared the Physics Prize with his father: the youngest people ever to receive a Nobel Prize, with their age when they won. Who impresses you most?

- 20 votes · 11 items
- Oct 26, 2024 · Poppy Cox
- https://even.best/en/l/3988/the-youngest-nobel-prize-winners-in-history

## Top 11

1. **Lawrence Bragg (25)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Physics, 1915. For X-ray crystallography, shared with his father William.
2. **Paul Dirac (31)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Physics, 1933. For new forms of atomic theory.
3. **Werner Heisenberg (31)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Physics, 1932. For creating quantum mechanics.
4. **Carl D. Anderson (31)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Physics, 1936. For discovering the positron.
5. **Rudolf Mössbauer (32)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Physics, 1961. For the effect that bears his name.
6. **Nadia Murad (25)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Peace, 2018. For fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war.
7. **Frederick Banting (32)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Physiology or Medicine, 1923. For the discovery of insulin.
8. **Mairead Corrigan (32)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Peace, 1976. For the peace movement in Northern Ireland.
9. **Tawakkol Karman (32)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Peace, 2011. For the struggle for women's rights in Yemen.
10. **Malala Yousafzai (17)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Peace, 2014. For the right of all children to education.
11. **Tsung-Dao Lee (30)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Physics, 1957. For his work on parity laws.

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