Nobel Peace Laureate Project

Honoring and Inspiring Peacemakers

American Nobel Peace Prize Winners

1947 — American Friends Service Committee

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The award was shared with the Friends Service Council of the United Kingdom. Their motto is “It is better to…
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1950 — Ralph Bunche, United Nations diplomat

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For 11 months Bunche worked on an agreement that ended the war between Israel and the Arab nations even though…
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1953 — George Marshall, Secretary of State

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Formerly head of the U. S. army during World War II, Marshall proposed and put into practice the Marshall Plan,…
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1962 — Linus Pauling, Chemist and Opponent of Nuclear Weapons Testing

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In 1964 Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and became only the second person to win Nobel Prizes in…
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1964 — Martin Luther King, Jr. , Minister and advocate of non- violence

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King was honored for the way he waged his struggle for justice. Instead of violence and war, he used the…
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1970 — Norman Borlaug, Plant Biologist

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Working mainly in Mexico, Borlaug was a central figure in the “Green Revolution” that created new strains of maize and…
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1973 — Henry Kissinger, U. S. Secretary of State

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Shared the award with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam. The latter refused the award. After four years of negotiations…
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1985 — International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

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Started in the United States at the height of the Cold War, by 1985, it included over 150,000 physicians from…
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1987 — Eliezer Wiesel, author of works on the Holocaust

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A naturalized citizen born in Romania, Wiesel was a veteran of Hitler’s concentration camps where many members of his family…
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1997 — Jody Williams, activist

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1997 — International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL): The Nobel award was given because of their efforts to ban and…
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