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Ralph Johnson Bunche (/ b ʌ n tʃ / BUNCH; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel.
Linus Pauling, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1962, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes; he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. [6] At 17 years of age, Malala Yousafzai, the 2014 recipient, is the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize. [6]
Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965 [1]) was an American physician.Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for the discovery of the hormone cortisone, and its application for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Different organisations are responsible for awarding the individual prizes; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics; the Swedish Academy awards the Prize in Literature; the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. [3]
Around 71% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 29% of them are immigrants from other nations. [3] U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in negotiating peace for the Russo-Japanese War. [4]
Shared the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize with Tobias Asser. [105] Elihu Root [br] February 5, 1845 Clinton, Oneida County, New York, United States February 7, 1937 New York City, United States 1909, 1910, [106] 1913: Won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize but was awarded the following year. [107] Nagao Ariga (Aruga) November 13, 1860 Osaka, Japan May 17, 1921 ...
Won the 1944 Nobel Peace Prize "for the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity." [15] Won the 1963 Nobel Peace Prize with the League of Red Cross Societies "for their work in the protection of human rights in the ICRC’S 100 years of existence." [16] Societá Interregionale per la Pace, Unione Lombarda [d] Milan ...
Borlaug expressed the idea now known as the "Borlaug hypothesis" in a speech given in Oslo, Norway, in 2000, upon the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize: "Had the global cereal yields of 1950 still prevailed in 1999, we would have needed nearly 1.8 billion ha of additional land of the same quality ...