Nobel Peace Prize 1946

Emily Greene Balch

Photo: E. Romer. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/2

John Raleigh Mott

Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Peace Prize 1946 was divided equally between Emily Greene Balch "for her lifelong work for the cause of peace" and John Raleigh Mott "for his contribution to the creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries"

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