34% of Nobel Prizes Have Gone to Americans

Key takeaways

• The Nobel Prize is an international award for outstanding achievements in science, literature, and peace, given annually since 1901.
• Among the long list of U.S. laureates are Martin Luther King Jr. (for his fight against racial segregation and injustice) and Ernest Hemingway (for his impactful work in literature).
• Marie Curie, born in Poland and later a French citizen, was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for her pioneering discoveries in radioactivity.