5 things you need to know about Nobel Prize in Physics

On the second day of the 'Nobel Week', the Royal Swedish Academy will announce the name of Nobel Laureates for Physics.

The 109th announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics will be made shortly.

Here are a few thing you need to know as you wait for the announcement -

1. Until today, only two women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics - Marie Curie in 1903 and Maia Goeppert Mayer in 1963

2. The average age of a Physics Nobel Laureate is 55.

3.The Royal Swedish Academy selects the Physics Laureates through a majority vote

4. John Bardeen is the only person to have received the Nobel Prize twice for Physics. Once in 1956 and then in 1972

5. This is how Nobel Prize team selects Physics Laureate

How the Nobel Committee selects the Physics Laureates: #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/njKybJArCw

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2015