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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]
The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. [6]
Since the first award in 1901, conferment of the Nobel Prize has engendered criticism [1] and controversy. [2] After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established that an annual prize be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.
Beernaert won the Nobel Peace Prize for "inter-parliamentary work and [appearances] at the international peace conferences at the Hague in 1899 and 1907." He was also prime minister of Belgium ...
Obverse and reverse of the Nobel Peace Prize Medal. The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway and the Norwegian royal family on 10 December each year (the anniversary of Nobel's death). The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm.
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 where a Laureate has voluntarily declined to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first of only two occasions where any Nobel Prize has been voluntarily declined. [a] [3] [4]
Shared the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize with Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant. Prime Minister of Belgium (1884–1894) [108] Alfred Hermann Fried: 11 November 1864 Vienna, Austri 5 May 1921 Vienna, Austria 1909, 1910, 1911: Shared the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize with Tobias Asser. [109] Elihu Root: 5 February 1845 Clinton, New York, United States 7 ...
The Nobel Prize medal received by the laureates The Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences , which began in 1969, is a set of award based on Alfred Nobel 's will given to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."