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Presentation Speech by Halvdan Koht, member of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1931 In awarding the Peace Prize to two Americans, the today brings the United States into first place among those nations whose representatives have received the prize during the past thirty years. Previously, France had the highest number of prizewinners, a total…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has this year awarded the Peace Prize for 1954 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. War has existed in all times – war between tribes, war between races, war between nations, civil wars and religious wars. War has always laid…

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…

  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…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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.