Nobel Peace Prize
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Alfred Nobel: The Founder of the Peace Prize
Alfred Bernhardt Nobel was an inventor and the person who established the Nobel Peace Prize. He set the criteria as “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” The first recipients awarded the Nobel in 1901 were German, Wilhelm Conrad von Röntgen, Jakobus Hendricus van t’Hoff and the German Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Emil Adolf von Behring and the French minister, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the poet, Sully Prudhomme.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi Biography* 1942: September 6. Marriage of Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin Kyi (becoming Daw Khin Kyi), senior nurse of Rangoon General Hospital, where he had recovered from the rigours of the march into Burma. 1945: June 19. Aung San Suu Kyi born in Rangoon, third child in family. “Aung San” for father, “Kyi” for mother, “Suu” for grandmother, also day of week of birth. Favourite brother is to drown tragically at an early age. The older brother, will settle in San Diego, California, becoming United States citizen. 1947: July 19. General Aung San assassinated. Suu…