Toni Morrison won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
WANGARI MAATHAI
Wangari Maathai was the first African womand and the first Kenyan to win a Nobel prize. She won the Peace prize in 2004, for her environmental work.
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Wangari Maathai.Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya)
Wangari Maathai from Kenya won the Peace prize in 2004.
The first Nobel Prize for environmental action was awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.
Wangari Maathai, the renowned Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, received numerous awards throughout her lifetime. Notably, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. In addition to the Nobel Prize, she received numerous other honors, including the Right Livelihood Award and various honorary doctorates, reflecting her significant impact on environmental and social justice. Overall, she was recognized with over 30 awards during her lifetime.
Noble prize winner for peace in 2004 was Wangari Muta Maathai
The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, in recognition of his efforts at reconciliation of conflict in many parts of the world. The link below is to the Nobel Prize Committee press release at the time of announcing the award.
Wangari Maathai won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work with the Green Belt Movement advising poor women to plant over 3 million trees and standing up to an oppressive Kenyan government.
The cast of Weather Report - 2008 includes: James Howard Kunstler as Himself - Author Wangari Maathai as Herself - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
No Noble prize in physics was awarded in 1916. If there is no work or advance deemed important by the Nobel Foundation, then there no prize is awarded. This was why no prize was awarded in 1916.