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NOBEL PRIZES

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FIRST WOMAN TO WIN FOR PEACE BERTHA VON SUTTNER
FATHER & SON WHO SHARED A PRIZE (PHYSICS) WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG & WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG
4 PERSONS TO HAVE RECEIVED 2 NOBEL PRIZES MARIE CURIE (PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY) LINUS PAULING (CHEMISTRY & PEACE) JOHN BARDEEN (PHYSICS TWICE) FREDERICK SANGER (CHEMISTRY TWICE)
FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE IN ANY CATEGORY THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1906)
ONLY PERSON TO HAVE REJECTED A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LE DUC THO (1973)
FIRST WOMAN TO WIN FOR LITERATURE SELMA LAGERLOF
AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE POSTHUMOUSLY (HE WAS NOMINATED BEFORE HIS DEATH) DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
ONLY PRIME MINISTER TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE WINSTON CHURCHILL (LITERATURE)
FIRST ASIAN TO WIN IN ANY CATEGORY RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913- LITERATURE)
THE FATHER OF THE UNITED NATIONS, AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1945 CORDELL HULL
THIS ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 3 TIMES INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
IN NO CASE MAY A NOBEL PRIZE BE DIVIDED BETWEEN MORE THAN ___ PERSONS 3
BERTHA VON SUTTNER WAS THE FIRST WOMAN AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR THIS (1905) PEACE
THIS FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS WAS AWARDED THE FIRST NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1901 HENRY DUNANT
THIS AMERICAN WAS NOMINATED 91 TIMES BETWEEN 1916 AND 1931, WHEN SHE WAS FINALLY AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE JANE ADDAMS
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IS AWARDED IN THIS CITY OSLO, NORWAY
ALL NOBEL PRIZES EXCEPT THE PEACE PRIZE ARE AWARDED IN THIS CITY STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
WHEN ALFRED NOBEL WAS ALIVE, THESE 2 COUNTRIES WERE UNITED UNDER ONE MONARCH SWEDEN & NORWAY(UNTIL 1905, WHEN NORWAY BECAME AN INDEPENDENT KINGDOM)
IN 1964 HE DECLINED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
BORIS PASTERNAK WAS 1 OF ONLY 4 LAUREATES FORCED TO DECLINE THE NOBEL PRIZE. THE OTHER 3 WERE FORBIDDEN TO ACCEPT BY THIS WORLD LEADER HITLER
THE ONLY PERSON TO HAVE BEEN AWARDED 2 UNSHARED NOBEL PRIZES LINUS PAULING
NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AMERICAN 5-STAR GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL
THIS 1989 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER IS 75 YEARS OLD AND HAS SPENT 70 YEARS IN HIS CURRENT JOB DALAI LAMA
THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE JANE ADDAMS (HULL HOUSE)
AFTER WINNING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2009, HE SAID, "THIS IS NOT HOW I EXPECTED TO WAKE UP THIS MORNING" BARACK OBAMA
IN 1993 THESE 2 SOUTH AFRICANS SHARED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NELSON MANDELA AND F.W. DE KLERK
THIS FORMER V.P. WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2007 AL GORE
IN 1997 THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WAS SHARED BY JODY WILLIAMS & THE ICBL, THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN....THESE LANDMINES
THIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER WAS BORN IN WHAT IS NOW MACEDONIA IN 1910 MOTHER TERESA
THIS COMMITTEE IS ELECTED BY THE NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE
THIS MAN SHARED THE 2007 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WITH THE UNITED NATIONS' INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE AL GORE
HE FELT HONORED & HUMBLED THAT THE NOBEL COMMITTEE GAVE THE PRIZE TO "A SIMPLE MONK FROM TIBET" DALAI LAMA
JIMMY CARTER'S LIBRARY HAS HIS 2002 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE; HE CAN ALSO SHARE THE CREDIT FOR THE PEACE PRIZE WON IN 1978 BY THESE 2 MEN BEGIN & SADAT
IN 1990 THIS "PEACEFUL" POET BECAME THE FIRST MEXICAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE OCTAVIO PAZ
THE 2 AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO HAVE WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RALPH BUNCHE & MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
IT'S THE NUMBER OF U.S. PRESIDENTS WHO'VE WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 4: T.ROOSEVELT, WILSON, CARTER, OBAMA
THOUGH HE NEVER WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, HE WAS NOMINATED 5 TIMES, THE LAST BEING IN 1948 A FEW DAYS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION GANDHI
THIS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1917, 1944, AND 1963 INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
9 YEARS BEFORE MANDELA AND DE KLERK, THIS SOUTH AFRICAN CLERGYMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BISHOP DESMOND TUTU
"NIGHT" IS THIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER'S ACCOUNT OF SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ AS A TEENAGER ELIE WIESEL
IN 1983 HE WAS PICKING MUSHROOMS NEAR GDANSK WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE HAD WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LECH WALESA
THE FIRST AND ONLY CAREER SOLDIER TO WIN A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GEORGE MARSHALL
IT'S THE ONLY NOBEL PRIZE THAT CAN BE AWARDED TO AN ORGANIZATION OR INSTITUTION RATHER THAN AN INDIVIDUAL PEACE
IN 2004 WANGARI MAATHAI BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN FROM THIS CONTINENT TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AFRICA
IN 1988 THIS ORGANIZATION'S PEACEKEEPING FORCES WERE AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UNITED NATIONS
BORN IN GHANA IN 1938, THIS U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL WON A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2001 KOFI ANNAN
THE PRESDIENT OF THIS ASIAN COUNTRY WON THE 2000 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SOUTH KOREA
IN 1984 THIS CLERIC FROM KLERKSDORP WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BISHOP DESMOND TUTU
HIS RESUME INCLUDES REPORTER, WEST BERLIN MAYOR, WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR, AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER WILLY BRANDT
IT DOESN'T TAKE A NUCLEAR PHYSICIST TO FIGURE OUT THAT HE WON THE 1975 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ANDREI SAKHAROV
THE FIRST CANADIAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE(1957), HE RETIRED AS P.M. IN 1968 LESTER PEARSON
THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TEDDY ROOSEVELT
AFTER CAMPAIGNING AGAINST THE NUKES HE DEVELOPED, ANDREI SAKHAROV WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR THIS PEACE
THESE 2 PRESIDENTS RECEIVED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DURING THEIR TERM IN OFFICE WILSON & OBAMA
FOR ITS WORK ON BEHALF OF PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE, THIS ORGANIZATION WON THE 1977 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
IN 1901 HENRY DUNANT, WHO FOUNDED THIS ORGANIZATION, SHARED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
THIS AUTHOR OF "A BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM" WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ELIE WEISEL
IN THE FIRST 2 YEARS OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, 3 INDIVIDUALS FROM THIS PEACEFUL COUNTRY WON SWITZERLAND
WITH RABIN & PERES, HE ROUNDED OUT A TRIO OF 1994 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS YASSER ARAFAT
IN 1993 THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WAS GIVEN JOINTLY TO F.W. DE KLERK AND THIS LEADER WHO SUCCEEDED HIM NELSON MANDELA
AFRAID THAT POLAND WOULD BAR HIS RETURN FROM OSLO, HE RECEIVED HIS 1983 PRIZE IN ABSENTIA LECH WALESA
AN ADVOCATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, RIGOBERTA MENCHU OF THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY WON THE 1992 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GUATEMALA
AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ON OCT. 25, 1965, MAYBE IT GOT ITS PRIZE MONEY IN PENNIES ON THE 31ST UNICEF
THIS BAPTIST MINISTER WON THE 1964 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
FOR HIS WORK IN FOUNDING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, HE RECEIVED THE 1919 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WOODROW WILSON
THE 1998 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MONEY WAS SPLIT BETWEEN JOHN HUME & DAVID TRIMBLE FOR THEIR WORK IN THIS PART OF THE U.K. NORTHERN IRELAND
THE 1969 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION, AN AGENCY OF THIS BODY UNITED NATIONS
THIS SOUTH AFRICAN PEACE PRIZE WINNER WAS NAMED ROLIHLAHLA, WHICH IN COLLOQUIAL USAGE MEANS "TROUBLEMAKER" NELSON MANDELA
THIS 1990 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER WAS BORN NEAR STAVROPOL & IN 1970 BECAME THAT CITY'S COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
IN 1965 THESE 2 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS PARTICIPATED IN THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH BUNCHE & MLK
FOR HIS DETERMINED CENTRAL AMERICAN PEACE EFFORTS, THIS COSTA RICAN WON THE 1987 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ
THE ROYAL CAROLINE INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM AWARDS THE NOBEL PRIZE IN THIS CATEGORY MEDICINE
IN 1971 THIS WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR EASING EAST-WEST TENSIONS WILLY BRANDT
IN 1975 THIS PHYSICIST BECAME THE FIRST CITIZEN OF THE SOVIET UNION TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ANDREI SAKHAROV
CO-WINNER OF THE 1925 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR HIS PLAN RE-SCHEDULING GERMAN REPARATIONS CHARLES DAWES
IN 1960 ZULU CHIEF ALBERT LUTULI BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN TO WIN THIS PRIZE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
LECH WALESA SENT HER TO ACCEPT HIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE HIS WIFE
THE 2 MIDDLE EAST PRIME MINISTERS OF THE SAME COUNTRY WHO SHARED THE 1994 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WITH ANOTHER LEADER SHIMON PERES & YITZHAK RABIN
IN 1942 AUNG SAN, COMMANDER OF THIS COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE ARMY, MARRIED NURSE KHIN KYI BURMA
WINNER OF THE 1999 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, THIS GROUP ONCE USED THE SLOGAN, "WE HAVE TWO BILLION PEOPLE IN OUR WAITING ROOM" DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
THE 3 MEN WHO SERVED AS U.S. VICE PRESIDENT AND ALSO WON A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CHARLES DAWES, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, AND AL GORE
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