Nobel Prize

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English Presentation Speech by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2006. Ole Danbolt Mjøs delivering his presentation speech. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Laureates, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to…

Norwegian Tale av leder av Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Oslo, 10. desember, 2006 Tale av Ole Danbolt Mjøs. Dykkar Majestetar, Høgvyrde Kronprinspar, Prisvinnarar, Eksellensar, Mine damer og herrar, “Den Norske Nobelkomite har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2006 skal delast i to like store delar, mellom Muhammad Yunus og Grameen Bank for arbeidet deira…

Short biography Kostøl, Esther Marie 1936 – Trade union leader and politician Labour Esther Kostøl worked for the Norwegian Civil Servants’ Association (Norsk Tjenestemannslag) in 1977 and in the period 1978-1985, she worked for the Civil Servants’ Cartel (Statstjenestemannskartellet). She was Secretary of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in 1985-1989, its Deputy Chairman in…

Presentation Speech by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland , Chairman of the , on December 10, 1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser was born in 1838 in Amsterdam where he became professor of commercial law and later of international law from 1862 to 1893 when he was named a member of the Council of State. He soon became…

Presentation Speech by Ragnvald Moe, Secretary to the on December 10, 1913 Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845, in the State of New York and took his degree in law at New York University in 1867. At a later date he studied international law and took his doctorate in 1894. For some years…

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Stang, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1922 I take pleasure in announcing that this year’s Peace Prize has been awarded to Professor Fridtjof Nansen. Work of an international character carried out by Mr. Nansen during these past years has brought him the Peace Prize. I might especially mention his…

Presentation Speech by , member of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1936 The Nobel Peace Prize for 1936 has been awarded to Mr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, foreign minister of the Argentine Republic. The prize has thus been given to a statesman. The career and achievements of a statesman must always be examined in the…

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1945 Six years have passed since we last awarded the Peace Prize, six years during which war has dominated the world. These war years, in which men have fought for life and freedom on a scale unprecedented in the annals of history,…

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee The has awarded this year’s Peace Prize to the Quakers, represented by their two great relief organizations, the Friends Service Council in London and the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. It is now three hundred years since George Fox established the Society of…