To his surprise he won first prize in the section for 55-year-olds and older.

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Yundi Li was just 18 when he won first prize at the prestigious International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

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He won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of 28 for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News that were judged responsible for clearing a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy from McCarthy-era allegations that he was a security risk.

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In 1990 he and a colleague, John Krutilla, won the first Volvo environmental prize, the next best thing in his discipline to a Nobel.

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In 1973, Aimard won first prize at the Messiaen Competition, and at age 19 he was chosen by Pierre Boulez to become the first solo pianist for the influential new music group, Ensemble InterContemporain.

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