The youngest is Malala Yusufzai at 17. Dr Frederick Banting was awarded the Military Cross before the Nobel at 31.
Malala Yusufzai, 17
Nobel Peace Prize, 2014
Shot in the head in a school bus for speaking out against the Taliban who had burned all schools in Pakistan's Swat region, Malala was awarded along with India's Kailash Satyarthi for their fight for the right of all children to education.
Nadia Murad, 25
Nobel Peace Prize, 2018
From the Yazidi minority in Iraq, she was abducted at 21 by ISIS, kept as a sex slave for 3 months before she escaped to Germany.
A powerful voice against sexual atrocities as a weapon of war and the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.
Lawrence Bragg, 25
Nobel in Physics, 1915
Studied at Cambridge and conducted his Nobel Prize-winning research at 23 with his father, Professor William Bragg.
Father and son were awarded the Nobel for their analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
Tsung-Dao Lee, 30
Nobel in Physics, 1957
J Robert Oppenheimer called him one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists.
Awarded the Nobel for 'penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which led to important discoveries regarding elementary particles'.
Carl D Anderson, 31
Nobel in Physics, 1936
The California Institute of Technology professor was awarded the Nobel for his discovery of the positron.
Paul Dirac, 31
Nobel in Physics, 1933
Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge, UK, his work was on mathematical and theoretical aspects of quantum mechanics.
He was awarded the Nobel for the 'discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory'.
Werner Heisenberg, 31
Nobel in Physics, 1932
The German physicist's theory of quantum mechanics was published in 1925 when he was only 23. He is famous for the uncertainty principle published in 1927.
Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel 'for the creation of quantum mechanics.'
Frederick G Banting, 31
Nobel in Medicine, 1923
The Canadian doctor was awarded the Military Cross in World War I.
Awarded the Nobel for the discovery of insulin, he died in an air mishap in WWII.