Friday, October 9, 2009

Who else has won the Nobel Peace Prize? President Obama joins elite club with 2009 win

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win stunned Nobel watchers, many of whom thought it was too early in his presidency to win the award.











President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Peace Prize.  In doing so he's joined an elite club.  See who else has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
— 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama
— 2008: Martti Ahtisaari

President Obama is only the 3rd sitting U.S. President to recieve the award. Above, a Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Linus Pauling in 1962. Pauling also won one for Chemistry in 1952.
— 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


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