2008 Nobel Prize Laureates

WORLD TOP SIX NOBEL COTROVERSIES          PERSON'S  HERE  OF THIS YEARBARACK OBAMA Barack Obama is The US President was riding an unstoppable wave of "Yes, we can" euphoria in 2009, which left other candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize swept aside by a bolt from the blue. Barack Obama was chosen for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," which raised more than a few eyebrows, considering the nomination came just 12 days after he took...Read Full Story

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:_ 2010: British researcher Robert Edwards for the development of in-vitro fertilization._ 2009: Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, research that has implications for cancer and aging research._ 2008: Harald zur Hausen and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...Read Full Story

President Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and seven other Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written to President Obama to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Obama was awarded the prize in 2009, in part for playing a “more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting.” In their letter , the humanitarian leaders from around the globe challenged Obama to live up to his promises and prevent the climate...Read Full Story

Image courtesy of April Killingsworth Honouring South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Nobel Square, in Cape Town, is a place for reflection and contemplation of South Africa’s troubled past and a tribute to those who took some of the most significant steps towards turning the country into the rainbow nation it is today. The likenesses of the late Nkosi Albert Luthuli, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, former President F. W. de Klerk and former President Nelson Mandela are immortalised...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will confront the Afghan war "head-on" when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday and address criticism he does not deserve it so early in his presidency, officials said.Obama is the third sitting U.S. president, along with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, to win the prize. Jimmy Carter was honored two decades after he left office. Other prominent Nobel peace laureates include Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother...Read Full Story