Nobel Prize Facts 2013

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish Chemist and the inventor of dynamite. The fortune that he made from this during his lifetime, about SEK 31 million (today about SEK 1,702 million or about $265 million), was left in his will to institute the Nobel Prizes. One of these prizes is awarded to "the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement". The announcement regarding the award of Nobel Prizes is made in October each year.
While we wait for this years announcement, here are a few facts about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry:

• 104 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded since 1901.
• A Nobel Prize in Chemistry was not awarded in 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941 and 1942
• 63 Chemistry Prizes have been given to one Laureate only
• 23 Chemistry Prizes have been shared between 3 Laureates. 
• A Nobel Prize in Chemistry can not be awarded to more than 3 people in each year.
• 162 individuals have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (these people are called Laureates).
• 1 person, Frederick Sanger, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
• 4 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
  • Marie Curie 1911
  • Irene Joliot-Curie 1935
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 1964
  • Ada Yonath 2009
• 2 Chemistry Laureates have been awarded Nobel Prizes in other areas as well:
  • Marie Curie (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911)
  • Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962)
•  1 person, Linus Pauling, is the only person who has been awarded 2 unshared Nobel Prizes.
• 4  Nobel Prize Families:
  • Marie and Pierre Curie - husband and wife (Physics 1903)
  • Irene Joilot-Curie and Frederic Joliot - husband and wife (Chemistry 1935)
  • Hans von Euler-Cheplin (father, Chemistry 1929) and Ulf von Euler (son, Medicine 1970)
  • Arthur Kornberg (father, Medicine 1959) and Roger D. Konberg (son, Chemistry 2006)
• Average age of all Chemistry Laureates is 57
• Youngest Chemistry Laureate was Frederic Joliot who was 35 years old when awarded his Nobel Prize in 1935 (together with his wife Irene Joliot-Curie)
• Oldest Chemistry Laureate was John B. Fenn who was 85 years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002.
• 0 posthumous Nobel Prizes in Chemistry. A Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously unless death occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize.
• 2 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have been forced by authorities to decline the Nobel Prize. Adolf Hitler forbade Richard Kuhn (Chemistry 1938) and  Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry 1939) from receiving their Nobel Prizes.

Reference:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/facts/chemistry/