Nobel Prize controversies.pptx
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Julia Mihhailova St. Petersburg 2012
“Nobel Peace Prize choices never please everyone”. Washington Post “Nothing sparks debate like the Nobel Prize”. TIME magazine The awards have often been seen by local authorities as "interference" in national matters. (Prizes for Peace)
1. Barack Obama For “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
2. Cordell Hull As “Former Secretary of State; Prominent participant in the originating of the UN”.
3. Yasser Arafat Created “opportunities for a new development toward fraternity in the Middle East”.
4. Wangari Maathai “For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”.
5. John Forbes Nash “For their pioneering analysis of equilibria in theory of noncooperative games”.
6. Carl von Ossietzky An outspoken pacifist and prominent opponent of Hitler.
7. Alexander Fleming “For the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”.
8. Harald zur Hausen “For his discovery of human papilloma viruses (HPV) causing cervical cancer”.
9. Henry Kissinger “For the 1973 Paris Peace Accords intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam War and a withdrawal of the American forces”.
10. Linus Pauling “For his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances”. (Chemistry - 1954) “For his campaign against nuclear weapons testing”. (Peace - 1962)
“A Nobel prize for the EU at a time Brussels and all of Europe is collapsing in misery. What next? An Oscar for Van Rompuy”. Geert Wilders, Dutch eurosceptic
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Nobel Prize controversies.pptx