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The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. [6]
The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population." [1] [2] He is the twelfth American recipient of the prestigious Peace Prize. [3]
The Nobel Peace Prize Concert (Norwegian and Swedish: Nobels fredspriskonsert) has been held annually since 1994 on 11 December to honour the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The award ceremony on 10 December takes place in Oslo City Hall , while the concert has been held at Oslo Spektrum , with the attendance of the laureate and other prominent guests.
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was "the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a ...
The 1970 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the American agronomist Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) "for having given a well-founded hope - the green revolution." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the thirteenth American recipient of the Peace Prize.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
Nobel Laureate [1] Prize [1] Year [1] Country [1] Status [1] Rationale Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (born 1935) Peace: 1989 Tibet: Claimed Head of State of Tibet (10 March 1963 – 13 June 1991) Head of the Tibetan Administration for Tibetans–in–exile (14 June 1991 – 2011)
As of October 2023, the Peace Prize has been awarded to 111 individuals and 27 organizations; 19 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than for any other Nobel Prize. Only two recipients have won multiple Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944, and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations ...