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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. -
- 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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Nobel Peace Prize on Amazon
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The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates: An Illustrated Biographical History, 1901-2001 - $35.00
Illustrated biographical history of one hundred years of Nobel Peace Prizes from Frédéric Passy in 1901 to Kofi Atta Annan and The United Nations, 2001.
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Classic Nobel Peace Prize Film DVD: 1936 Nobel Prize Ceremony History Pictures Film With Nobel Laureates Enrico Fermi (Physics 1938), Harold Urey (Chemistry 1934), Maurice Maeterlinck (Literature 1911), Albert Einstein (Physics 1921), and Many More Scient - $19.99
This rare Spanish language film covering all aspects of the Nobel Prize Foundation and the Nobel Prize Awards contains invaluable Albert Einstein footage. Quality film footage of Albert Einstein is an elusive commodity. This movie is a very...
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The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture - $12.00
The Nobel Lecture was delivered by Jimmy Carter on December 10, 2002, at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Prize for Peace.
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Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (Oxford Profiles) - $50.00
Here, in a single volume, are the profiles of all the individuals and organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since its establishment in 1901. From the creator of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who inv...
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