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How Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee defines peace
Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to advance the safety and rights...
What inspires Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee to fight injustice
Gbowee is known for rallying women to pressure leaders into ending Liberia's civil...
Learn how the invention of dynamite led, in part, to the global recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a civil rights leader
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, which resulted in a fortune, his disillusionment,...
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Nobel Prize
The obverse side of the Nobel Prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or...
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Nobel Prize medal for Physics and Chemistry (reverse)
The reverse side of the Nobel Prize medal awarded for both Physics and Chemistry.
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Nobel Prize medal for Physiology or Medicine (reverse)
The reverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Physiology or Medicine.
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Nobel Prize medal for Literature (reverse)
The reverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Literature.
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Nobel Prize: medal
The obverse side of the Nobel Prize medals for physics, chemistry, physiology or...
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Nobel Prize medal for Peace (reverse)
The reverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Peace.
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Nobel Prize medal for Economics
The obverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Economics.
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Nobel Prize medal for Economics (reverse)
The reverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Economics.
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Marshall, Barry J.
Barry J. Marshall at the Nobel Prize ceremony, 2005.
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Toni Morrison receiving the Nobel Prize, 1993
American author Toni Morrison was the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize...
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Nobel, Alfred Bernhard: will
Page one of the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel that he signed in Paris, France, November...
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The section of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will that established the Nobel Prizes. The...
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Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter at the Nobel Prize award ceremony, Stockholm, 2011.
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