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  2. 1964 Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of African Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    The most recent recipient, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. A notable recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) the first democratically elected president of South Africa, who played a key role in the repeal of apartheid laws. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 alongside ...

  5. List of Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of heads of state and government Nobel laureates

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    Nobel Laureate [1] Prize [1] Year [1] Country [1] Status [1] Rationale David Trimble (1944–2022) Peace: 1998 Northern Ireland ( United Kingdom) 1st First Minister of Northern Ireland (Head of Government of Northern Ireland serving with Seamus Mallon and Mark Durkan) (1 July 1998 – 14 October 2002)

  8. List of black Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    The first black recipient, Ralph Bunche, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. W. Arthur Lewis became the first black recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. The most recent black laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.

  9. List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ...

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    Protests against World War I at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.