The Golden Ages

Martin Luther King Jr. won Nobel Peace Prize at 35.

 So, youth is wasted on the young, the ubiquitous
 "they" say, but what, exactly, is "young"? A look at the
 ages of Nobel Prize winners indicates that our most
 productive, creative, and effective years are our
 late 30s ~ give or take, depending on the area of
 specialization: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/big-breakthroughs-come-in-your-late-30s/283858/
    And if you don't believe it, here's a partial list of
 Nobel Prize winners over the years by age:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/age.html

Marie Curie won Nobel for Physics at 36.

At 88, Doris Lessing is, so far, the oldest winner of a Nobel in Literature.