The Nobel Peace Prize 1931

Jane Addams

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Prize share: 1/2

Nicholas Murray Butler

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Peace Prize 1931 was awarded jointly to Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler "for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind"

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