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Won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize but was awarded the following year. Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature too. [291] James Chapple: August 23, 1865 Rockhampton, Queensland Colony April 8, 1947 Auckland, New Zealand 1930 [292] Gustav Adolf Deissmann [gg] November 7, 1866 Langenscheid, Kingdom of Prussia April 5, 1937 Zossen, Nazi Germany 1930 [293]
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 ...
As previous Nobel laureates are qualified to nominate annually according to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, [4] AFSC and QPSW formed a Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Task Group which selects and recommends future Nobel laureates – individuals or organizations – who they believe best manifests "the divine spark in action in the human family."
Two U.S. lawmakers have nominated Jimmy Lai, a former Hong Kong publisher now standing trial on national security charges, and three other jailed Chinese dissidents for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Won the 1917 Nobel Peace Prize "for undertaking the tremendous task of trying to protect the rights of the many prisoners of war on all sides of World War I, including their right to establish contacts with their families." [13] [14] Won the 1944 Nobel Peace Prize "for the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity." [15]
In 2018, a campaign for Queen Elizabeth to win the Nobel Peace Prize was reaching an apex, with The Telegraph reporting that senior political figures believed the Queen should be recognized for ...
Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. [5] Of the currently revealed female nominees both in physics and chemistry, the notable scientists Henrietta Swan Leavitt , Astrid Cleve , Harriet Brooks , Alice Ball , Mileva Marić , Inge ...
According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a nomination is considered valid if it is submitted by a person or a group of people who falls within one of the following categories: [105] 1. Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states ;