Article Detail Who was First secretary general of United Nations ? Answer: Trigve Li Similar Questions : 1. Name of the first man to go into the space ? Answer: Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) 2. Who was the first man to compile the Encyclopaedia ? Answer: Aspheosis 3. Who won first Nobel prize for chemistry ? Answer: J.H. Wenthoff of Howlland 4. Who won first Nobel prize for physics ? Answer: W.K. Roentgen (Germany) 5. Name of first Men to climb Mt. Everest ? Answer: Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May, 1953) 6. Name of the first Country to print books ? Answer: China 7. Who won first Nobel prize for Literature ? Answer: Rene F.A. and Sulli Pradhom (France) Read more from - First in World