Peace
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1975 to Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. In the will and testament that Alfred Nobel drew up prior to his death in…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of , Oslo, December 10, 2001. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and, not least, this year’s and past year’s Peace Prize Laureates. Let me begin by extending a warm welcome to this year’s special Peace Prize award ceremony. The…
moreThe Nobel Peace Prize 1916
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreThe Nobel Peace Prize 1948
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreJane Addams – Biographical
Biographical
Jane Addams (born Laura Jane Addams, September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. She was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. Her father was a prosperous miller and local…
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