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Listen to a full-length audio recording of Dr. King's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, held on 11 December 1964 in Oslo, Norway. This is the first time the speech has been made available in its entirety to a global audience since Dr. King originally delivered it, over 51 years ago.
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign against racism. "He is the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence", said the Chairman of the Nobel Committee in his presentation speech at the award ceremony.
Presentation of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in the auditorium of the University of Oslo, Norway, on 10 December 1964, from Mr Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee. Aged 35, he was then the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ever.
Watch Martin Luther King Jr. receive his Nobel Prize
The first nomination arrived to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in January 1963.
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The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901. See all Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and why they were awarded the prize.
All Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
No person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. But who can? And how are these persons chosen?
Read more about how the Nobel Laureates are nominated
Video clips from the Nobel Banquet
Banquet Menu
Banquet Program (pdf)
Nobel Laureates' Banquet Speeches
Arthur B. McDonald
Tomas Lindahl
William C. Campbell
Svetlana Alexievich
Angus Deaton
Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK to fund the Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Nobel's life and work
An entirely new industry grew up, based on Alfred Nobel's patents and with Alfred as the initiator.
Alfred Nobel's dynamite companies
In his will of 27 November 1895 signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
Excerpt of Alfred Nobel's will
See all the Nobel Laureates and why they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
See the list of all Nobel Prize awarded women.
The youngest Nobel Laureate ever is 17-year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
List of all Nobel Laureates by age
Get to know the Nobel Laureates a bit better. Find your favourite among the episodes!
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Alfred G. Gilman, 1994 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, died on 23 December, 74 years old. He was awarded for the discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells.
Biography
Douglass C. North, awarded the 1993 Prize in Economic Sciences, passed away on 23 November. He shed new light on the economic development in Europe and the United States before and in connection with the industrial revolution, and emphasized the role of property rights and institutions.
Biography of Douglass C. North
Richard F. Heck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis", passed away on 9 October, 84 years old.
Biography of Richard F. Heck
Yoichiro Nambu, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, passed away on 5 July, 94 years old.
Biography
