Nobel Prize

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985 to the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. It is the committee’s opinion that this organisation has performed a considerable service to mankind by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes…

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John Raleigh Mott (May 25, 1865-January 31, 1955) was born of pioneer stock in Livingston Manor, New York, the third child and only son among four children. His parents, John and Elmira (Dodge) Mott, moved to Postville, Iowa, where his father became a lumber merchant and was elected the first mayor of the town. At…

Eisaku Satō was born on March 27, 1901 in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. In 1921, completing the course of senior high school, he entered Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University) and majored in German jurisprudence. In 1923, he passed the senior civil service examinations, and in the following year, upon graduating from the University, he…

Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922; he studied at the Kadoorie Agricultural College where he graduated with distinction. His military career began in 1940 when he joined the “Palmach”, the elite unit of the Haganah. During the War of Independence (1948-1949), he commanded the Harel Brigade, deployed on the Jerusalem front. For the…

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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 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…