Fact 1647 — William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate until Malala Yousafzai
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William Lawrence Bragg received half of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics at age 25; his father, William Henry Bragg, received the other half. For nearly a century, Lawrence Bragg was considered the youngest Nobel laureate. In 2014, Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17 and became the youngest laureate overall. Bragg remains the youngest laureate in physics.