International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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1 (of 8) ICAN, represented by Setsuko Thurlow and Beatrice Fihn, receive the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Berit Reiss-Andersen of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, during the award ceremony in Oslo on 10 December 2017.
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2 (of 8) Executive director of ICAN Beatrice Fihn delivering her Nobel Peace Prize lecture at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 2017.
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3 (of 8) Setsuko Thurlow delivering her Nobel Peace Prize lecture at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 2017.
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4 (of 8) ICAN activist Setsuko Thurlow and Executive director of ICAN Beatrice Fihn viewing the traditional torchlight procession in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate ICAN from a balcony at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway on 10 December 2017.
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5 (of 8) The annual torchlight procession in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2017, ICAN, Oslo, Norway 10 December 2017.
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6 (of 8) 2017 laureates assembled at the Nobel Foundation during Nobel Week on 12 December 2017. Back row: chemistry laureate Jacques Dubochet, physics laureate Barry C. Barish medicine laureates Michael W. Young and Michael Rosbash, physics laureate Kip S. Thorne and chemistry laureate Joachim Frank. Front row: medicine laureate Jeffrey C. Hall, representatives of peace laureate ICAN Beatrice Fihn and Josefin Lind, Richard H. Thaler, chemistry laureate Richard Henderson and physics laureate Rainer Weiss.
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7 (of 8) Signing ceremony for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, 20 September 2017.
Photo: Darren Ornitz/ICAN
8 (of 8) Moment of treaty adoption on 7 July 2017, when an overwhelming majority of the world's nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban nuclear weapons.
Photo: Clare Conboy
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.