Barack Obama gets Nobel Peace PrizeOctober 9th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama is the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", it was announced in Oslo Friday.
Obama fourth US president to win NobelOctober 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama Wednesday became the fourth US president to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
The other three are:
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1906) "for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case"
-- Woodrow Wilson (1919) as "founder of the League of Nations"
-- Jimmy Carter (2002) "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development"
Roosevelt and Wilson won the honour while in office and Carter 21 years after demitting office in 1981.
A list of winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980October 9th, 2009 List of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:
— 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama
— 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
— 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
— 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
— 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
— 2004: Wangari Maathai
— 2003: Shirin Ebadi
— 2002: Former U.S.
Excerpts from citation for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack ObamaOctober 9th, 2009 Excerpts from 2009 Nobel Peace Prize citationOSLO, Norway — Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
President Barack Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace PrizeOctober 9th, 2009 President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace PrizeOSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S.
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize for 'extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy'October 9th, 2009 In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace PrizeOSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S.
Barack Obama gets Nobel Prize for PeaceOctober 9th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", it was announced in Oslo Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel for LiteratureOctober 8th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Herta Mueller of Germany has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm Thursday.
Herta Mueller wins Nobel for LiteratureOctober 8th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm Thursday. The Academy's citation said that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, (she) depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".
Herta Mueller wins Nobel for LiteratureOctober 8th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm Thursday. The Academy's citation said that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, (she) depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
She was born Aug 17, 1953, in the German-speaking town of Nitzydorf, Romania.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, YonathOctober 7th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Indian origin scientist wins Nobel Prize in ChemistryOctober 7th, 2009 LONDON - Indian origin senior scientist at the MRC Laborartory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 along with two others. The Nobel Committee announced on Wednesday that the Tamil Nadu born Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel Prize with Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel) for their "studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
Kao, Boyle and Smith jointly awarded Nobel for PhysicsOctober 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Charles K. Kao, Willard S.
Three US scientists win Nobel Prize for medicineOctober 5th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the US have won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine, it was announced in Stockholm Monday. The three scientists solved a fundamental problem in biology on "how chromosomes can be copied in a complete way and how they are protected against degradation", the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said.
Gas-mask bra designers win Ig Nobel prizeOctober 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The designers of a bra that turns into gas masks have received the 2009 Ig Nobel prize organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The undergarment can be converted into one mask for the wearer and one for a needy bystander.
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