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The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded in 1988) and United States former vice president, Al Gore (b. 1948) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are ...
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1] Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions.
The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. [5] Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize is occasionally awarded to an organisation (such as the International Committee of the Red Cross , a three ...
Protests against World War I at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
Awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize with Muhammad Yunus. Sail Training International: 2002 : 2006, 2007 [244] 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: 1988 Geneva, Switzerland 2007: Awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. 2008: Mayors for Peace: 1982 Hiroshima, Japan 2008, 2011 [245] [246] Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo: 1977 ...
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 ...
First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 2001 Kofi Annan Ghana: Peace: 2002 Sydney Brenner South Africa: Physiology or Medicine: 2003 J. M. Coetzee: Literature: 2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya: Peace: First Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt: 2007 Doris Lessing Zimbabwe (born in Iran ...
Nobel Laureate [1] Prize [1] Year [1] Country [1] Status [1] Rationale Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (born 1935) Peace: 1989 Tibet: Claimed Head of State of Tibet (10 March 1963 – 13 June 1991) Head of the Tibetan Administration for Tibetans–in–exile (14 June 1991 – 2011)