Happy Birthday, Nobel Prizes! (World).This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme 1902 Élie Ducommun C. A. . The awards are given each year to individuals in such fields as physics, medicine, literature, and diplomacy. The prizes were established by Alfred Nobel (no-BELL), a Swedish chemist who invented dynamite. On December 10, the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. will be awarded to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. and the United Nations. The Nobel committee said that "the only ... route to global peace ... goes by way of the United Nations." Some people have criticized the UN for not doing more to aid war victims in Bosnia and Rwanda. But the UN has won high marks for helping HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome victims, and for its work in troubled East Timor. |
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