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Won the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize but was awarded the following year. [19] Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 1921, 1933, 1941, [20] 1946 United States: 31st President of the United States (1929–1933) [21] Hoover was the chief Allied relief administrator during World War I (1914–1919) and later chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
The Sikh 'Court of Lahore'.. A royal household is the highest-ranking example of patronage.A regent or viceroy may hold court during the minority or absence of the hereditary ruler, and even an elected head of state may develop a court-like entourage of unofficial, personally-chosen advisers and "companions".
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is an international peace prize established according ... Members of The International Court of Justice and The Permanent Court of ...
A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital sentenced Monday Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws. Yunus, who pioneered using ...
A special judge’s court in Bangladesh indicted Wednesday Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others on charges in an over $2 million embezzlement case. Yunus, 83, who was awarded the Nobel ...
Alfred Nobel's will further specified that the prize be awarded by a committee of five people chosen by the Norwegian Parliament. [15] [16] Nobel died in 1896 and he did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a prize category. As he was a trained chemical engineer, the categories for chemistry and physics were obvious choices. The ...
The prize is the first Nobel Peace Prize for journalists since the German Carl von Ossietzky won it in 1935 for revealing his country's secret post-war rearmament programme. Philippines court to ...
Nobel laureates receive a gold medal together with a diploma and (as of 2023) 11 million SEK (roughly US$1.0 million, €0.95 million). Nobel laureates of 2012 – Alvin E. Roth, Brian Kobilka, Robert J. Lefkowitz, David J. Wineland, and Serge Haroche – during the ceremony