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malala.org. Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; [4] born 12 July 1997) [1][4][5] is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [6] at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize ...
Sherry Rehman, a Pakistani politician and a former Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, received "International Peace Award for Democrats" from International Human Rights Commission on her contribution for the promotion of democracy and human rights in 2008. [117] Jane Drew Prize. Yasmeen Lari.
1968. Har Gobind Khorana. (born in Raipur, Punjab Province, British India) United States. Physiology or Medicine. Awarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg – "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis." [5] 1983. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Obama’s 2009 Nobel Prize continues to stick in Donald Trump’s craw, a decade-and-a-half later (AFP via Getty Images) Trump insisted that he in fact deserved a Nobel more than Obama did, and ...
Updated June 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM. Sixteen Nobel Prize -winning economists signed a joint letter Tuesday warning of what they see as economic risks if former President Donald Trump were to serve a ...
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was "the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a ...
Nadia Murad. Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. [2][3][4] In 2014, as part of the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq and much ...
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.