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The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Communist Party of Vietnam Politburo representative Lê Đức Thọ "for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973." Thọ declined to accept the prize, and Kissinger accepted in absentia as he did not want to be targeted by ...
Lê Đức Thọ (Vietnamese: [lē ɗɨ̌k tʰɔ̂ˀ] ⓘ; English: Lay-Duhk-Toh; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary general, diplomat, and politician. [2] He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with United States Secretary of State ...
Nobel Prize controversies. Outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, identified with the Nobel Prize, is awarded for outstanding contributions in Economics. Since the first award in 1901, conferment of the Nobel ...
Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho sign the Paris peace accords that ended the Vietnam War. Both men were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, though Le Duc Tho refused to accept it.
The first and only Vietnamese Nobel laureate was Lê Đức Thọ when he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Henry Kissinger. [1] But, Tho rejected the awarded claiming "peace has not yet really been established in South Vietnam."
[126] [127] Tho rejected the award, telling Kissinger that peace had not been restored in South Vietnam. [128] Kissinger wrote to the Nobel Committee that he accepted the award "with humility", [129] [130] and "donated the entire proceeds to the children of American servicemembers killed or missing in action in Indochina". [131]
The fact that he has declined this distinction does not in the least modify the validity of the award. Under the circumstances, however, the Academy can only state that the presentation of the prize cannot take place." [1] It is the only known occasion when a Laureate has voluntarily declined to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature. [3]
The three were Richard Kuhn, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1938; Adolf Butenandt, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1939; and Gerhard Domagk, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1939. They were later awarded the Nobel Prize diploma and medal, but not the money.[11] ^ In 1948, the Nobel Prize in Peace was not awarded.