Peace Nobel

Given all this hue and cry revolving around Barack Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace this year, im sure some people might be wondering if the awards are being held for the first time ..

no .. theyre not..

heres a list of the Winners of the same awards during the years that passed.. without it being such a big show on the internet.. or any other media for that matter ...

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1973:

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 - Jimmy Carter

2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan

2000 - Kim Dae-jung

1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières

1998 - John Hume, David Trimble

1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams

1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta

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

1994 - Yassir Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk

1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum

1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev

1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama

1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez

1986 - Elie Wiesel

1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1984 - Desmond Tutu

1983 - Lech Walesa

1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles

1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

1979 - Mother Teresa

1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin

1977 - Amnesty International

1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan

1975 - Andrei Sakharov

1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato

1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho

Also, i know .. you;ve not read the whole thing.. its ok .. neither did i ..

But Peace isnt the only field for the Nobels...

Other Winners this year are

Literature: Herta Muller

Physiology or Medicine: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack Svotak

Physics: Charles K. Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith

Chemistry: Venkataraman Ramankrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath

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also, i am completely amazed at how my nephews dint manage to make on to the list of peace prize ... coz whenever they go off to sleep at night.. there is a very welcome peace.. wherever they had been that day .. ;) ;)