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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]
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]
King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and he posthumously was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, nine years after his assassination in 1968. For his promotion of nonviolence and racial equality, King is considered a peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been controversial on many occasions but most agreed in 1993 that Mandela winning the award was "self-evident", according to Geir Lundestad, the then secretary of the ...
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 ...
This is a list of all the 31 heads of state and heads of government who have received the Nobel Prize. Excepting Winston Churchill who received the Literature Prize, all the others were awarded with a Peace Prize. [1]
UNHCR has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless. Two laureates have been awarded twice but not in the same field: Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry) and Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace).
Before being jailed, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran, founded by Nobel laureate Ebadi. The Nobel prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish ...