Nobel Peace Prize timeline
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Norman Angell Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour... Read more
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Arthur Henderson Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British union leader, politician, disarmament advocate, and the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize... Read more
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Carl von Ossietzky Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Carl von Ossietzky (October 3, 1889 – May 4, 1938) was a radical German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize. He was convicted... Read more
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 – May 5, 1959) was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace... Read more
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Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil... Read more
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Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés was established in 1930 by the League of Nations, shortly after the death of its name patron... Read more
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Second Time
Six years have passed since we last awarded the Peace Prize, six years during which war has dominated the world. These war years, in which men have... Read more
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Cordell Hull is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Cordell Hull has devoted his entire life to the stabilization of international relations. Best known to the public are his untiring efforts in the... Read more
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Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott are Jointly Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946... Read more
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Friends Service Council & American Friends Service Committee Are Jointly Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central... Read more
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John Boyd Orr is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), also known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a... Read more
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Ralph Bunche Becomes First African American to Win Nobel Peace Prize
In 1950 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the first non-white person, the African-American and United Nations (UN)... Read more
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Ralph Bunche is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1903 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize... Read more
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Léon Jouhaux is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879–April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked... Read more
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Albert Schweitzer is Awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in... Read more
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George Marshall is Awarded the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize, Along with Albert Schweitzer, who was Awarded the Previous Year's Prize
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army,... Read more
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is Awarded the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR; established December 14, 1950) is a United Nations agency mandated to... Read more
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Lester B. Pearson is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who won the... Read more
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Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (Dinant, February 10, 1910 – Leuven, January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose... Read more
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Philip Noel-Baker is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, born Philip John Baker (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982) was a British politician, diplomat, academic,... Read more
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Albert Lutuli is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
If the nonwhite people of South Africa ever lift themselves from their humiliation without resorting to violence and terror, then it will be above... Read more
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from... Read more
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Linus Pauling is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
During the Second World War, Pauling worked on military research and development. However, when the war ended he became particularly concerned... Read more
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The International Red Cross Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
It was after the French-Sardinian-Austrian war and on the background of the terrible massacres on the battlefields of northern Italy that the Red... Read more
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Martin Luther King Jr. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he... Read more
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