Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Dr. Ralph Bunche was born forty-six years ago in Detroit in the United States. So today he is still a young man and indeed, along with , the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize. Consequently, while most laureates have left their best years behind them,…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2000. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2000 to Kim Dae-jung. He receives the prize for his lifelong work for…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2005. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the International Atomic…

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 their…

Presentation Speech by Aase Lionæs, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1977 in the University Festival Hall, Oslo, December 10, 1977 Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Norwegian Nobel Committee is awarding two Peace Prizes, one to…

Presentation Speech by Halvdan Koht, member of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1931 In awarding the Peace Prize to two Americans, the today brings the United States into first place among those nations whose representatives have received the prize during the past thirty years. Previously, France had the highest number of prizewinners, a total…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has this year awarded the Peace Prize for 1954 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. War has existed in all times – war between tribes, war between races, war between nations, civil wars and religious wars. War has always laid…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1975 to Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. In the will and testament that Alfred Nobel drew up prior to his death in…

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of , Oslo, December 10, 2001. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and, not least, this year’s and past year’s Peace Prize Laureates. Let me begin by extending a warm welcome to this year’s special Peace Prize award ceremony. The…

Presentation Speech by Professor Francis Sejersted of the , Oslo, December 10, 1999. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Few aims can be more praiseworthy than to combat suffering: to help those in the most desperate situations, whatever their race and wherever they may be, to return…