
This Prize is an award in the memory of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of Dynamite.
There are, every year, six awards for six subjects:peace, literature, physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine.
All the prizes are given out in Sweden exept for the Pease one which is given in Norway: this is because Norway adn Sweden were one country when the prizes started.
The Nobel Peace Prize is given to someone who: "...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Every year the Norwegian Nobel Committee invites o group of qualified poeple to submit nominations for this award.
Beyond the great importance that the winner of this Prize gets there is a prize in money that worths 10 million SEK (c. US$1.4 million).
We are going to talk about the Prizes given in 1995 an 1996, to Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta.
Joseph Rotblat was born in 1908 in the territory of Russian Empire, now called Poland. He was a Physicist and when he got the Prize he lived in England. He wanted to fall out the nuclear centrals. He bacame secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World affaries and, in conjunction with it, he got in 1995 the Nobel Peace Prize with the following motivation: "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo was born in 1948 in East Timor, Wailacama exactly. He was a catholic bishop.
José Ramos-Horta was born in 1949 in Dili, East Timor. He was a politicia, the second president of Est Timor since de indipendence from Indonesia. The got the Nobel peace Prize together wit the following motivation: "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor".
Would you like to receive a Nobel Prize? :D
RispondiEliminaWell done to them!
RispondiEliminaI'm with it's my life.. would you like to receive a nobel prize? :D
all of them did a very good work...
RispondiEliminaOne day, I will receive a nobel price!! I will save the world with Benedetta who will help me =)
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