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    What is the maximal number of full siblings who won Nobel prizes?

    Question #97122. Asked by gentlegiant17. (Jun 30 08 8:15 AM)


    stedman

    		Although six fathers-and-sons, and two married couples, have won Nobel Prizes, to date only two siblings have done so. They are Jan and Nikolaas Tinbergen of the Netherlands. Jan won the first award in economics in 1969 while Nikolaas won the medicine prize in 1973.

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    Jun 30 08, 8:58 AM

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