Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1909 Auguste Beernaert was born in 1828. After completing his legal studies he began practice as a barrister in Brussels in 1853. In 1859 he was appointed counsel at the Belgian Supreme Court of Appeal. He entered politics at an early date…

Presentation Speech by Carl Joachim Hambro, Member of the Nobel Committee The of the Norwegian Storting [Parliament] has decided to divide the Peace Prize for 1963 between the two sister organizations of the Red Cross: the International Red Cross Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies. It is most appropriate that such a decision…

  Presentation Speech by Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, member of the , on December 10, 1930 It might appear that this year’s two Peace Prize winners are widely separated, not only in the geographical sense by the ocean which separates their two countries, but also in the area of their activities and in the nature of…

Report of the Speech by Halvdan Koht, on December 10, 1921 Professor Koht made a long speech today on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize to Branting and Lange. He outlined their activities in the cause of peace, stressing Branting’s political work, starting with the Socialism which had made him a practical…

Following the announcement, Geir Lundestad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Øystein Heggen about the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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