3 scientists who won the Nobel Prize twice 

You might be aware of the prestigious Nobel Prize, given to people for their notable contribution to chemistry, physics, physiology, medicine, literature, and peace. The first ever distribution of the Noble Prize was done on December 10, 1901. Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, and Mother Teresa are some famous personalities who received the Nobel Prize for their contributions in their chosen fields. Well, some people managed to win this prize twice in their lifetime. Yes, there are scientists who won the Nobel Prize for their contribution in the field of science twice! Here’s their story for you. 

Linus Pauling 
Linus Pauling is the only scientist to receive the Nobel Prize twice without having to share it with anyone! But what did he do to earn the prize twice? Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist born in Portland on February 28, 1901. He received his first Nobel Prize in the year 1954 in chemistry. He was felicitated for his contribution in understanding the nature of chemical bonding. He received his second Nobel Peace Prize eight years later, in 1962. This one was for his campaigns against the testing of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Pauling indulged in humanitarian activities and wrote a book called No More War! in 1958, which depicted his analysis of the effects of nuclear weapons and wars on humanity. He died of prostate cancer in 1994 in Big Sur, California. However, he was not the only won to receive the Nobel Prize twice!  

Marie Curie  
Marie Curie is the first person in history to receive the Nobel Prize twice. Born in Warsaw, Russia as Maria Salomea Skłodowska, she was a French physicist. Her first prize was shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for discovering the concept of radioactivity in the year 1903. Later in the year 1911, the Curie couple was nominated again for the Nobel Prize in the subject of chemistry. However, following the death of Pierre Curie in 1906, the award was solely presented to Marie Curie. She received this Nobel Prize for discovering two radioactive elements: Radium and polonium. So, she managed to receive the Nobel Prize in two subjects, physics and chemistry. Marie Curie died in 1934 because of aplastic anaemia which was caused by exposure to radiation. She is known as the Mother of Modern Physics.  

Frederick Sanger 
Frederick Sanger was the last person as of now to receive two Nobel Prizes. He received both these prizes for biochemistry. Sanger was an English biochemist born in 1918 in Gloucestershire, England. He won his first Nobel Prize in 1958 for determining amino acid sequence in protein structures. He chose the key hormone responsible for regulating the blood glucose in our body, which is insulin (a protein). Later, in 1980, he received his second Nobel Prize for determining the sequence of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) in humans. He shared this prize with two other scientists, Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert. Sanger died in 2013 in Cambridge, England.