First Nobel prize winner for

Literature - Sully Prudhomme, France (1901).

Peace - Jean Henri Dunant, Switzerland & Frederic Passy, France (1901).

Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Germany (1901).

Physiology & Medicine - Emil Adolf Von Behring, Germany (1901).

Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus Van't Hoff, Netherlands (1901).

Economics - Ragnar Frisch, Norway & Jan Tinbergen, Netherlands (1969).

First person to win two Nobel prizes - Marie Sklodowska Curie (first in Physics, 1903 and the second in Chemistry in 1911).