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French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Only two Nobel laureates are widely reported to have refused a Nobel Prize: Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the 1964 Literature Prize) and North Vietnamese negotiator Lê Đức Thọ (declined the 1973 Peace Pr...
There are no documented counts in the provided reporting that answer how many times a Nobel Prize has been "gifted" to a third party; the Nobel Foundation’s public materials and the sampled encycloped...
Public pressure — from governments, political rivals or public opinion — has at times led Nobel laureates to threaten to return, decline, or actually part with their medals, with mixed outcomes: autho...
The available analyses indicate ; the closest relevant events are two recipients who the prize when it was offered. Those refusals — Jean-Paul Sartre (who routinely refused official honors) and Lê Đức...