The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant.
Jean Henri Dunant & Frederic Passy won the 1st Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
Theodore Roosevelt became the 1st American awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906. He had assisted in mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
Ralph J. Bunche was the first African-American person to win the nobel peace prize in 1950. (Martin Luther King, Jr. became the second African-American Peace Prize winner in 1964. ) In addition, the first female nobel peace pize winner was Bertha Sophie von Suttner, from Austria. She won the award in 1905.
Gerty Radnitz Cori became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine in 1947.
Marie Curie became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1911).
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen won the 1st Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.
Jacobus Henricus Van't Hoff won the 1st Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1901.
Marie Curie became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics (1903).
The Nobel Peace Prize was created by the inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prizes. It was established in his will in 1895 and first awarded in 1901.
February 1st of that year.
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Marie Skłodowska Curie was the first Polish woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her pioneering research on radioactivity.