The Nobel Prize
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for work in peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.
Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award. So far 768 individuals and 19 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize in six categories
Complete list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901 to 2006
[When the prize was first awarded]
Year
Name of the Recipient
Country
Organization
2006
Dr. Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank
Bangladesh
Grameen Bank
2005
Mohamed ElBaradei & International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA]
Egypt
IAEA
2004
Wangari Maathai
Kenya
2003
Shirin Ebadi
Iran
2002
Jimmy Carter
USA
2001
Kofi Annan and the United Nations
Ghana
United Nations
2000
Kim Dae Jung
South Korea
1999
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Doctors Without Borders
1998
John Hume and David Trimble
Northern Ireland
1997
Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines [ICBL]
USA
ICBL
1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta
East Timur
1995
Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash movement
Britain
1994
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
Israel and
PLO
1993
Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk
South Africa
1992
Rigoberta Menchu
Guatemala
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
1989
Dalai Lama
Tibet
1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
UN Peacekeeping Force
1987
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica
1986
Elie Wiesel
USA
1985
International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984
Desmond Tutu
South Africa
1983
Lech Walesa
Poland
1982
Alva Myrdal and Alfonso Garcia Robles
Sweden & Mexico
1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
1980
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Argentina
1979
Mother Teresa
Albania
1978
Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
Egypt & Israel
1977
Amnesty International
Amnesty International
1976
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
Britain & Northern Ireland
1975
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet Union
1974
Sean Mac Bride and Eisaku Sato
Ireland & Japan
1973
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (declined to receive the award)
USA & [Vietnam -declined]
1972
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1971
Willy Brandt
Germany
1970
Norman Borlaug
USA
1969
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO
1968
Rene Cassin
France
1967
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1966
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1965
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF
1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
USA
1963
International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies
Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies
1962
Linus Carl Pauling
USA
1961
Dag Hammarskjöld
Sweden
1960
Albert Lutuli
South Africa
1959
Philip Noel-Baker
Britain
1958
Georges Pire
Belgium
1957
Lester Pearson
Canada
1956
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1955
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
1953
George Marshall
USA
1952
Albert Schweitzer
France
1951
Leon Jouhaux
France
1950
Ralph Bunche
USA
1949
Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
Britain
1948
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1947
Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
The Quakers
1946
Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
USA
1945
Cordell Hull
USA
1944
International Committee of the Red Cross
Red Cross
1943
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1938
Nansen International Office for Refugees
Nansen Inter. Office for Refugees
1937
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Britain
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Argentina
1935
Carl von Ossietzky
Germany
1934
Arthur Henderson
Britain
1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
Britain
1932
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1931
Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler
USA
1930
Nathan Soederblom
Sweden
1929
Frank Billings Kellogg
USA
1928
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1927
Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
France & Germany
1926
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
France & Germany
1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
Britain & USA
1924
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1923
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1922
Fridtjof Nansen
Norway
1921
Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
Sweden & Norway
1920
Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
France
1919
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
USA
1918
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917
International Committee of the Red Cross
Red Cross
1916
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1914
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913
Henri La Fontaine
Belgium
1912
Elihu Root
USA
1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
The Netherlands & Austria
1910
Permanent International Peace Bureau
International Peace Bureau
1909
Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet, Baron d’Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque
Belgium & France
1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
Sweden & Denmark
1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
Italy & France
1906
Theodore Roosevelt
USA
1905
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
Austria
1904
Institute of International Law
Institute of International Law
1903
William Randal Cremer
Britain
1902
Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
Switzerland
1901
Jean Henri Dunant and Frederic Passy
Switzerland & France