[QUOTE=Typo Knig]
Continuing the hijack - the shortest time between discovery and Nobel award probablybelongs to Klaus von Klitzing - publication in 1980, Nobel awarded in 1985. He also has a solo award in physics, which is rare these days.
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I disagree. William Lawrence Bragg won it in 1915 - three years after his cited work!
[QUOTE=Carnac the Magnificent!]
Interesting Awardees:
1973 Peace Prize
HENRY A. KISSINGER , Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.
LE DUC THO , Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
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To underscore what another poster said about the Nobel Committee awarding peace efforts as opposed to results, Le Duc Tho declined the prize because his country wasn’t yet actually at peace and he thought it a bit premature to be accoladed.