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- Created by Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel
- First awarded: 1901
- First recipients: Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
- Former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
- Other winners have included Martin Luther King Jr., Woodrow Wilson, International Committee of the Red Cross, Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa
- Other Nobel Prizes: Physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine and literature
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The Peace Prize is awarded annually "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."Official Site: Alfred Nobel's Will
The Nobel Foundation anounced on October 8, 2009 that US president Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/
The Nobel Peace Prize is the one of five Nobel Prizes awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden. -
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Nobel Peace Prize Questions
IF the Nobel committee (made up of Norwegian politicians from across the spectrum) had NOT chosen Obama, who SHOULD they have picked? 1 AnswerI would probably have chosen Morgan Tsvangirai from Zimbabwe, or Hu Jia from China. Tsvangirai stood up to Robert Mugabe, and brought hope to Zimbabwe of ever g... read more
what invention won Albert Einstein the Nobel prize? 5 AnswersHe won the prize for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. read more
Does Barack Obama really deserve the Novel Prize for peace? 12 AnswersThere have been several posts on this, I even posted one myself. My direct answer to your question would be no he does not deserve it. This quick answer has n... read more
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Nobel Peace Prize? RT @NBAFanHouse Historic pic of 1st Israeli & Iranian 2 play in NBA. Omri Casspi & Hamed Haddadi http://twitpic.com/qpjb8
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Excuse me, but did you happen to find my Nobel Peace Prize??
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Barry Soetoro Obama announces his 're-revised' Afgan War strategy 1st wk Dec, then heads to Oslo to pick up Nobel Peace Prize? #tcot
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Hmm, I guess they gave Nelson Mandela the Nobel Peace Prize to early too.
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