Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was the only woman to win a Nobel Prize this year. Getty Images. Nobel Prize in numbers Statistics from to Nobel laureates people, 28 organisations 17 Age of the youngest winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 97 Age of the oldest winner, John B Goodenough, who was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 59 Prizes won by 58 women 6 Declined the award - including four who were forced by their native countries to turn it down Source: Nobel Prize website.
From Two women share chemistry Nobel in historic win Why do the Nobel prizes matter? Who are the winners? Related Topics. Sweden Nobel Prize Women. Published 7 October Published 8 October. Published 5 October Alfred Nobel was very interested in cultural and peace-related issues, and the prizes he established reflect this:. No one knows for sure why Alfred Nobel wanted the Peace Prize in particular to be awarded by a Norwegian committee - or what prompted him to include Norway in the Nobel Prize proceedings at all.
Go to content. JavaScript disabled! You must enable JavaScript for this website to work correctly. Home Nobel Peace Prize History. In his last will Nobel declared that the whole of his remaining fortune of 31, 5 million Swedish crowns was to be invested in safe securities and should constitute a fund "the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" Will The will specified in which fields the prizes should be awarded — physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature and peace — and which criteria the respective prize committees should apply when choosing their prize recipients.
Bunche was the first African American to win the prestigious award. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in , he entered the field of U.
Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Although Wilson could not attend the award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, the U.
Ambassador to Norway, Albert Motivated more by interest in free publicity than a commitment to gender equality, Wyoming territorial legislators pass a bill that is signed into law granting women the right to vote. In the meantime, however, there was a Dickinson was a witty and popular student at Amherst Academy and at Mt. Holyoke but was viewed as somewhat unconventional. She made a few trips to Philadelphia and Boston but rarely left Amherst.
Frank Sinatra Jr. In Moscow, Soviet officials arrest four dissidents and prevent at least 20 others from attending a peaceful protest against communist political oppression on United Nations Human Rights Day. According to some of the protesters, Soviet officials threatened them with violence Sherman completes his March to the Sea when he arrives in front of Savannah, Georgia.
On December 10, , the 1 millionth Ford car rolls off the assembly line at the River Rouge plant in Detroit. At first, Henry Ford had built his cars like every other automaker did: one at a time. Live TV.
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