Nobel Prize

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Martti Ahtisaari was born on June 23, 1937 in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. Finland lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked the country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, Ahtisaari became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. With his mother, he moved from one household to another before…

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Prizes related to the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize In 2008, Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve international conflicts. Find out here about previous Nobel Prizes relevant to his work. The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 Jimmy Carter “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts,…

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Prizes related to the 2008 Medicine Prize In 2008, Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of viruses linked to diseases. Find out here about previous Nobel Prizes relevant to their work. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 Peyton Rous “for his discovery…

Looking back over the two discoveries rewarded with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine reveals two different timelines for discovery research. One, Harald zur Hausen’s realization that subtypes of a virus that produces harmless warts can also lead to cervical cancer, took a decade of work to prove, initially against a backdrop of…

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