The Nobel Prize, which has been awarded every year since 1901,
is an international award for achievements
in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for work in peace.
Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai
By: Jane Wallace
Malala Yousafzai
speaks out for the rights of girls to have an education.
Kailash Satyarthi
By: Themis from Beirut, Lebanon
Kailash Satyarthi
is determined to end child labor practices around the world.
Desmond Tutu
By: Wendy Jewell from The MY HERO Project
Desmond Tutu
worked to end apartheid in South Africa and encourages forgiveness.
Albert Schweitzer
By: Robert B. Hole, Jr.
Albert Schweitzer
had a 'reverence for life.'
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov
was a Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner devoted to justice and human rights.
Aung San Suu Kyi
By: Susannah Abbey
Aung San Suu Kyi
has dedicated her life to freeing Burma from a repressive dictatorship and creating democracy without violence.
Barack Obama
By: Elaine
Barack Obama
was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment and efforts to promote peace in the world.
Dalai Lama
By: Jeff Trussell
Dalai Lama
is the religious leader of Tibet and an emblem of Tibet's hopes for freedom.
Elie Wiesel
By: Mindy from Millersville
Elie Wiesel
is a Holocaust survivor and author, whose work spreads a message of peace.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
By: Caroline, Julia and Zoe<br>from<br> New Haven County, CT
Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
Fridtjof Nansen
By: Susannah Abbey
Fridtjof Nansen
was a scientist, explorer, humanitarian and diplomat.
Henry Dunant
By: Achintya from Victoria
Henry Dunant
was the founder of the International Red Cross.
Jane Addams
By: April from San Diego
Jane Addams is in the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame and was a leading reformist and peace advocate.
Jimmy Carter
By: Alex from Montvale
Jimmy Carter
has dedicated his life to humanitarian and philanthropic causes and to a peaceful world.
Jody Williams
By: Jeff Trussel
Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta
By: Richard Kent
Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta
is Kerry Kennedy's hero because of his human rights work in East Timor.
Joseph Rotblat
By: Dr. Bernard Lown
Joseph Rotblat
is a hero and a friend to Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctor, Bernard Lown.
Kim Dae-Jung
By: Han from Youngkwang, South Korea
Kim Dae-Jung
brought democracy and economic stability to South Korea.
Kofi Annan
By: Jerrilyn Jacobs
Kofi Annan
is an honored freedom and peacemaker hero.
Lech Walesa
By: Veronica from Longmont
Linus Pauling
By: Jason from San Diego
Linus Pauling
won one undivided Nobel Prize for chemistry and one for peace.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream"
Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream"
was the civil rights speech that moved the world
Mikhail Gorbachev
By: Andrey from Tselina, Russia
Mikhail Gorbachev
helped melt the ice of the Cold War.
Mohamed Anwar El Sadat
By: Youssef from Cairo
Mohamed Anwar El Sadat
risked his life for peace.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Mother Teresa
By: Jeff Trussell
Mother Teresa devoted her life to the homeless and dying in India.
Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus
started a bank for the poor in Bangladesh.
Nelson Mandela
By: Jeff Trussell
Nelson Mandela
was a peacemaker and a freedom hero.
Norman Borlaug
By: Martin from Richmond
Norman Borlaug
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his success in increasing the world's food supply.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
By: Ashley from Spokane
Oscar Arias Sanchez
won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to establish peace in Central America.
Ralph Bunche
By: Marvin S from Delaware
Ralph Bunche
was a diplomat and teacher who won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
By: Lydia Ratna
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, became involved with various groups in their struggle for the indigenous people out of personal conviction and sense of justice.
Shirin Ebadi
By: Sabine from Beirut, Lebanon
Shirin Ebadi
is a human rights activist who works to promote peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
By: Josh from Grand Rapids
Theodore Roosevelt
won the Nobel Prize for Peace for brokering a treaty between Japan and Russia.
Wangari Maathai
By: Will Levitt
"That's the way I do things. When I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree." Wangari Maathai
Winston Churchill
By: Riley McMahon
Winston Churchill
was one of the first to recognize and warn others of Hitler's danger to freedom and human rights.
Yitzhak Rabin
By: Noa Ben-Artzi
Yitzhak Rabin
made peace a priority as the leader of Israel.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
By: Artyom from Tselina, Russia
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
was a Russian novelist and dissident who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By: Antonio Mendoza
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels and short stories.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
By: Olga Chinevich from Belarus
Henryk Sienkiewicz
was a Polish writer who is revered for his epic novels.
John Steinbeck
By: Peter Z. from San Diego
John Steinbeck
wrote of his love of the earth and of the poor who struggled on it.
Miguel Angel Asturias
By: Ronnie from Cedar Grove
Naguib Mahfouz
By: Sufyan from Cairo
Naguib Mahfouz
was the first Arab to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pablo Neruda
By: Claudia Herrera Hudson
Pablo Neruda
is the most widely read Latin-American poet.
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer founded the first international, inter-racial adoption agency.
Shimon Peres
By: Rebecca from Montreal
Winston Churchill
By: Riley McMahon
Winston Churchill
was one of the first to recognize and warn others of Hitler's danger to freedom and human rights.
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
By: Benjamin from Cedar Grove
Barbara McClintock
By: Stephanie from St. Paul
Barbara McClintock
was one of the first women geneticists, and a Nobel laureate.
Bernardo Houssay
By: Nicolas from Buenos Aires
Bernardo Houssay
was an Argentinean physiologist and Nobel Prize winner.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
By: Nat Johnson
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
is a Nobel Prize winner and pioneer genetic researcher.
"Had I not failed in my one year at London (Ontario), I might never have started my research work...yet it was there that I obtained the idea that was to alter every plan that I had ever made, the idea which was to change my future and possibly the future
Gertrude B. Elion
By: Susannah Abbey
Gertrude B. Elion
developed the AIDS drug, AZT.
Howard Florey
By: Tamara Lennon from Lismore
Howard Florey
shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for extracting penicillin.
J. Robin Warren & Barry J. Marshall
By: Nicholas from Warragul, Australia
Médecins Sans Frontières
By: Josh from Millbrook
Medecins Sans Frontieres
won the Nobel Peace Prize for working under fire to save lives.
Paul Greengard
By: Inje from Mission Viejo
Paul Greengard
received a Nobel Prize for Medicine for his understanding of the nervous system.
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
was an important medical researcher of the 19th century.
Sir Alexander Fleming
By: Caitlin from Montvale
Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Ahmed H. Zewail
By: Omar Tarek from Cairo
Irene Curie
By: Lauren Zeranski
Irene Curie
was the second woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in science; the first woman was her mother, Marie.
F. Sherwood Rowland
By: Edward A. Ortiz
F. Sherwood Rowland
discovered the 'greenhouse effect.'
Mario Molina
By: Sofi and Mariana from Xalapa, Mexico
Nobel Prize for Physics
Albert Einstein
By: Richard V. Duffy
Albert Einstein
believed in the power of imagination.
Enrico Fermi
By: Matt
Enrico Fermi
was one of the 20th century's greatest physicists.
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
was an Italian inventor who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for wireless telegraphy. (4/25/1874)
Jack St. Clair Kilby
By: Edward Ortiz
Jack St. Clair Kilby
was an electrical engineer and inventor and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. (11/8/1923)
Leon Lederman
By: The My Hero Project
Leon Lederman
devotes much of his time and energy to improving science education in America.
Madame Curie
By: Robert B. Hole, Jr.
Madame Curie
received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium.
Marie Curie
By: Barbara Goldsmith
Marie Curie discovered radioactivity as an atomic property, opening the door to 20th century science.
Niels Bohr
By: Morgan from Marathon
Niels Bohr
invented and tested theories that we still use today.
Richard Feynman
By: Japh and Jack from Doylestown,PA
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
By: Luis Quezada
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
is a Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist who contributed to our understanding of the stars.
Art
Tribute to a Hero - Wangari Maathai - Kenya
By: Linda Gallagher
Albert Einstein
By: Jessica Zheng from The United States (Age 10)
Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore
By: Surjit Akre
Real Genius
By: Brendan of Laguna Beach High School
something about Wole
By: shonibare olatunbosun
Mandela at Large
By: Michael Mahue Moore
Ernest Hemingway
By: Ben Heine
Dalai Lama - Tom Block, Human Rights Painting Project
By: Tom Block
Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement
By: The Art Miles Mural Project
Mother Teresa
By: Kristen from Laguna Beach
Arthur Compton
By: Brandon from Westerville
Film
NOBELITY: Wangari Maathai [Excerpt]
Produced by:Turk Pipkin
An Excerpt from the Feature Doc "Nobelity" produced by Turk Pipkin.
Nobelity: Sir Joseph Rotblat
Produced by:Turk Pipkin
Nobel Laureate Sir Joseph Rotblat, who won the Peace Prize in 1995, wanted to rid the world of nuclear arms.
Nobelity: Jody Williams
Produced by:Turk Pipkin
Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, who won the Peace Prize in 1997, worked to ban land mines.
Nobelity: Desmond Tutu
Produced by:Turk Pipkin
Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, who won the Peace Prize in 1984, shares his inspiration with us.
Meet the New Nobel Prize Laureates