Nobel Peace Prize Winners - The History

Nobel Peace Prize Winners – The History

Written by ysdata on October 9, 2009 – 2:44 pm

Nobel Peace Prize Winners – The History

Nobel Peace Prize Winners The latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is President Obama. But the Nobel Peace Prize has been around for years. President Obama is the third sitting President to win the Noble Peace Prize. President Theordore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906, President Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, and President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

The History Of The Nobel Peace Prize

There are over 107 Nobel Peace Prize winners around the world. The Nobel Peace Prize is named after Alfred Nobel who died in 1896. Alfre Nobel was a wealth man who left a will desinating money for prize (one prize is the peace prize). Since, 1901 the Nobel Peace Prize has been given to a person who has done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations.

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Barack Obama
2008 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Martti Ahtisaari
2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – IPCC & Albert Arnold Gore Jr
2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Muahmmand Yunus & Grameen Bank
2005 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – International Atomic Energy Agency & Mohamed Elbaradei
2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Wangari Maathai
2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Wangari Maathai
2002 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Jimmy Carter
2001 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – UN & Kofi Annan
2000 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Kim Dae Jung
1999 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Doctors Without Border
1998 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – John Hume & David Trimble
1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – ICBI & Jody Williams
1996 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Carlos Felipe & Jose Ramos-Horta
1995 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Jodeph Ratblat & The Pugwash Conferences
1994 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres/Yasser Arafat
1993 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Nelson Mandeal & Fredrik Willem
1992 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Rigoberta Menchu Tum
1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – 14th Dalai Lama
1988 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – UN Peace Keeping Forces
1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Oscar Arias Sanchez
1986 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Elie Wiesel
1985 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – International Physcians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Lech Walesa
1982 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Alva Myrdal & Alfonso Garcia Robles
1981 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – UN High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Adolfo Perez Esquivel
1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Mother Teresa
1978 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Mohamed Anwar & Menachem
1977 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Amnest International London
1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan
1975 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Sean Macbride & Eisaku Sato
1973 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho (Who declined the Nobel Peace Prize)
1972 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No Award given this year
1971 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Willy Brandt
1970 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Norman Borlaug
1969 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – International Labour Org
1968 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Rene Cassin
1967 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1966 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1965 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Unicef
1964 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Martin Luther King Jr
1963 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Internationl Committee of the RedCross
1962 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Linus Carl Pauling
1961 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
1960 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Albert John Lutuli
1959 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Philip J Noel-Baker
1958 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Georges Henri Pire
1957 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1955 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1954 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – UN High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – George Catlett Marshall
1952 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Albert Schweitzer
1951 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Leon Jouhaux
1950 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Ralph Bunche
1949 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Lord John Boyd
1948 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1947 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – The Quakers
1946 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Emily Greene Balch & John Raleigh Mott
1945 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Cordell Hull
1944 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – International committee of the RedCross
1943-1939 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given these years
1938 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Lord Eagar Algernon Robert Gascoyne
1936 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Cal Von Ossietzky
1934 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Arthur Henderson
1933 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Sir Norman Angell
1932 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1931 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Jane Addams & Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Lar Olof Nathan
1929 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Frank Billing Kellogg
1928 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1927 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Ferdinand Busisson & Ludwig Quidde
1926 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Aristide Briand & Gustav Stresemann
1925 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Sir Austen Chamberlain & Charles Gates Dawes
1924 – 1923 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given these years
1922 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Fridtjof Nansen
1921 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Karl Hjalmar Branting & Christian Lous Lange
1920 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given this year
1917 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – International Committee of the RedCross
1916-1914 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – No award given these years
1913 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Henri La Fontaine
1912 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Elihu Root
1911 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Tobias Michael Carel Asser & Alfred Hermann Fried
1910 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Auguste Mari Franois Beernaert & Paul Henribenjamin Balluet
1908 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Klas Pontus Arnoldson & Fredrik Bajer
1907 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Ernesto Teodore Montea & Louis Renault
1906 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Theodore Roosevelt
1905 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Baroness Betha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner
1904 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Institute of International Law
1903 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Sir William Randal Ceremer
1902 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Elie Ducommun & Charles Albert Gobat
1901 Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Jean Henri Dunant & Frederic Passy