List of recent Nobel Peace Prize winners

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The Nobel Prizes (definite form, singular, Swedish: Nobelpriset, Norwegian: Nobelprisen) are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of the cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was instituted by Sveriges Riksbank  in 1968 and was first awarded in 1969. Although technically not a Nobel Prize, its announcements and presentations are made along with the other prizes, with the exception of the Peace Prize which is awarded in Oslo, Norway. Each Nobel Prize is regarded as the most prestigious award in its field.[1]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Each recipient, or laureate, is presented with a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money which depends on the Nobel Foundation's income that year. In 2009, each prize was worth 10 million SEK (c. US$1.4 million). The prize can not be awarded posthumously, nor may a prize be shared among more than three people.



List of recent Nobel Peace Prize winners
-- 2010: imprisoned Chinese scholar Liu Xiaobo
-- 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. President Jimmy Carter

-- 2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan

-- 2000: Kim Dae-jung

-- 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres

-- 1998: John Hume, David Trimble

-- 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams

-- 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos-Horta

-- 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

-- 1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

-- 1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk

-- 1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum

-- 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi

-- 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev

-- 1989: The 14th Dalai Lama

-- 1988: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

-- 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez

-- 1986: Elie Wiesel

-- 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

-- 1984: Desmond Tutu

-- 1983: Lech Walesa

-- 1982: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles

-- 1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

-- 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel


(Source: http://www.salon.com/wires/allwires/2010/10/08/D9INDUM00_eu_nobel_peace_list/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize,     
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-peace-prize-winners-20101009,0,6278853.story.)

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