💡 Interesting Facts
a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman?Dutch Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist?Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?Tuva or Bust!, a book about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's efforts to visit Tannu Tuva, was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing postage stamps from Tannu Tuva?noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore?of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity?the faculty of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara boast of two Nobel Prize winners and one Millennium Technology Prize winner?the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII?the researchers who lived in the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, New York, were collectively responsible for over 400 patents and one Nobel Prize?Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature?Leonid Hurwicz, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt, great-nephew of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lord Rayleigh, declined an offer of peerage, as did his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt?physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize-winning husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory?Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov, one of the founders of laser physics, has also described an antiferromagnetic transition in the organic material DPPH?Nobel Laureate George Smoot, whose work cemented the Big Bang theory, made a cameo appearance on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Terminator Decoupling"?Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize, unlike her parents Marie and Pierre, her sister Irène, and, on behalf of UNICEF, her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.?Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom?Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore?Far Rockaway High School in Queens, whose alumni include three Nobel Prize laureates and Bernard Madoff, stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades?Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen?