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In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning a peace treaty between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American (not just president) to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Ralph J. Bunche
As of 2014, 349 Americans have won a Nobel Prize. The first was Theodore Roosevelt who the Peace Prize in 1906.
Pearl S. Buck was the first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature
Four US presidents have won a Nobel Prize- all of them the Peace Prize.Theodore Roosevelt (1906 - for his mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war) Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1919 - Founder of the League of Nations)Jimmy Carter (2002 -for long efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.).Barack Obama( 2009- for efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples .
Scholar and diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his work for a peace treaty in the Russo Japanese War (Nobel Peace Prize)
Albert Michaelson, but it's not the Nobel Peace prize. (The speed of llight has nothing to do with peace.)
Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his mediation in Palestine.
Dr. Ralph Bunche from USA won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950
Theodore Roosevelt
This was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 (for peace)
Jane Addams.
Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
The first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize was Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. The first Latin American to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Argentinian diplomat Carlos Saavedra Lamas, who won in 1936 for his role in negotiating peace in the Chaco War.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first to receive the nobel peace prize