Niels Bohr famously dissolved the medal he got for his Nobel Price for chemistry in acid when the Nazis invaded his home country of Denmark, to prevent it from falling into the Nazis' hands.
Unlike him, the most recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of all things, who shall not be named here, because she doesn't deserve being named, handed her medal to a deranged megalomaniac and fascist wannabe dictator.
While he is the ultimate bastard, there were others before him, like Willy Brandt.
What's wrong with Willy Brandt?
I read this comment like "before Kissinger, there were people who won the prize who weren't utter bastards".
Honestly, when I made that comment, I did think that he probably wasn't the earliest example.