The Famous Five: The scientists who have won two Nobel prizes
FirstpostAmerican Barry Sharpless is only the fifth person ever to win a second Nobel Prize, two decades after being awarded his first. He won the illustrious award in 2001 for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions Paris: American Barry Sharpless on Wednesday became only the fifth person ever to win a second Nobel Prize, two decades after being awarded his first. AFP looks at the four other people who received the illustrious award twice for their services to mankind: Marie Curie The mother of modern physics was the first woman ever to win not one, but two, Nobel Prizes for her seminal discoveries in physics and chemistry. Linus Pauling Linus Pauling, the US chemist who posited that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off the common cold, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes — the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.
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