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Martti Ahtisaari – Biographical
Biographical
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…
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Press release
English 6 October 2008 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half to Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of “human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer” and the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of “human immunodeficiency virus” Summary This…
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The discoveries of human papilloma viruses that cause cervical cancer and of human immunodeficiency virus Professor Harald zur Hausen, emeritus Scientific Director and Chairman of the Management Board of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, has made seminal observations that identify novel human papilloma viruses as key contributors to cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is…
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