Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Gidske Anderson, Chairperson of the Norwegian Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has made this award in recognition of the leading role he has played in the radical…

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Norwegian Tale av leder i Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Oslo, 10. desember, 2004. Dykkar Majestet, Høgvyrde Kronprinspar, Prisvinnar, Eksellensar, Mine damer og herrar, “Den Norske Nobelkomite har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2004 skal tildelast Wangari Maathai for hennar innsats for ei berekraftig utvikling, demokrati og fred. Fred på jorda avheng av at vi maktar å…

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

Jean Henry Dunant’s life (May 8, 1828-October 30, 1910) is a study in contrasts. He was born into a wealthy home but died in a hospice; in middle age he juxtaposed great fame with total obscurity, and success in business with bankruptcy; in old age he was virtually exiled from the Genevan society of which…

Henri Marie La Fontaine (April 22, 1854-May 14, 1943) was born in Brussels. A professor of international law, a senator in the Belgian legislature for thirty-six years, a renowned bibliographer, a man of wide-ranging cultural achievements, he was noted, most of all, for his fervent and total internationalism. In 1877 at the age of twenty-three,…

Chief of his tribe and president-general of the African National Congress, Albert John Lutuli (1898?-July 21, 1967) was the leader of ten million black Africans in their nonviolent campaign for civil rights in South Africa. A man of noble bearing, charitable, intolerant of hatred, and adamant in his demands for equality and peace among all…

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