Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. [4] He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela. [5] Annan joined the United Nations in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office.
The 2001 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, ... Kofi Annan (1938–2018)
2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations [13] 2002: Profiles in Courage Award. [14] 2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. [15] 2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [16]
The Nobel Prizes (/ n oʊ ˈ b ɛ l / noh-BEL ... For instance, Kofi Annan was awarded the 2001 Peace Prize just four years after becoming the Secretary-General of ...
Linus Pauling, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1962, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes; ... Kofi Annan (1938–2018) Ghana 2002
There are Nobel Prizes for different categories, though not every prize is awarded each year. In fact, one category has only been handed out 55 times.
First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 2001 Kofi Annan Ghana: Peace: 2002 Sydney Brenner South Africa: Physiology or Medicine: 2003 J. M. Coetzee: Literature: 2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya: Peace: First Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt: 2007 Doris Lessing Zimbabwe (born in Iran ...
What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic