William Lawrence Bragg is the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Prize in Physics, receiving the award in 1915 at the age of 25. He shared the prize with his father, William Henry Bragg, a professor at Leeds, for their work analyzing crystal structure using X-rays. Bragg was also the youngest laureate for any Nobel Prize until 2014, when Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17.
Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.