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#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/09/2010 #1

People Protesters demonstrate outside the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong, demanding the release of jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in an announcement Beijing had anticipated and bitterly criticized. Chinese characters on the placard read “Congratulate Liu Xiaobo winning Nobel Peace Prize” and “Respect the spirit of Nobel Peace Prize. Release Liu Xiaobo and all dissidents”.
Liu Xiaobo #LiuXiaobo #Nobel

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/09/2013 #5

Belgian physicist Francois Englert waves as he appears at the balcony of his house in Brussels after he and Britain’s Peter Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics. The scientists won the prize for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, the particle that is key to explaining why elementary matter has mass.
#Nobel
François Englert 
Peter Ware Higgs 

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/27/2013 #2

Belgian physicist Francois Englert holds a mug of beer after a news conference in Oviedo, Spain. Englert, U.S. professor Peter Higgs and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will receive the 2013 Principe de Asturias Award for technical and scientific research Friday. Englert and Higgs are also the 2013 Nobel Prize laureates in physics, for their theories that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. In March, scientists at CERN confirmed the existence of the “Higgs boson”, which proved the men’s theories.
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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/11/2013 #2

People hold torches as they wait in a crowd for Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to appear on the balcony of Grand Hotel Oslo in Oslo. The Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria’s civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize in October.
OPCW #OPCW #Nobel

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/11/2014 #1

Malala Yousafzai, pictured in 2013, became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient when it was awarded Oct. 10th, 2014.
It seems a sadly odd criteria to win this award
by simply surviving a gunshot to the head.
Malala Yousafzai #MalalaYousafzai #Nobel

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/11/2014 #3

Nobel laureates Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi display their medals and diplomas during the awarding ceremony of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall, Norway. Teen education activist Yousafzai of Pakistan who survived a gunshot to the head and children’ rights activist Satyarthi of India received the Nobel Peace Prize to a standing ovation.
Malala Yousafzai #MalalaYousafzai
Kailash Satyarthi #KailashSatyarthi
 #Nobel

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/12/2014 #1

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi wave from the balcony of Grand Hotel during a torchlight procession in their honor in Oslo, Dec. 10th, 2014.
Malala Yousafzai #MalalaYousafzai
Kailash Satyarthi #KailashSatyarthi
 #Nobel

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/14/2014 #4

People light candles to pay tribute to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai in Multan, Pakistan. Malala’s struggle for girls to be educated in a deeply conservative society led to her being shot by the Taliban two years ago. Malala and Kailash Satyarthi of India have received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights.
Malala Yousafzai #MalalaYousafzai
Kailash Satyarthi #KailashSatyarthi
 #Nobel

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/14/2016 #4

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
Robert “Bob” Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) #BobDylan #Nobel

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/11/2016 #4

Guests attend the Nobel Prize Banquet at City Hall on Dec. 10th in Stockholm.
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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/10/2017 #1

Physicist Peter Mansfield, who won the Nobel Prize for helping to invent MRI scanners, has died at age 83.
Sir Peter Mansfield #Nobel

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#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/11/2017 #3

Swedish Royalty attend the 2017 Nobel prize award ceremony at the Concert house in Stockholm.
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#15 Click this link to see Assorted Stuff page --> 11/06/2018 #4

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#16 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/12/2018 #1

A general view of the Nobel Prize banquet and its guests.
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#18 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/11/2021 #2

#RudyardKipling #Nobel

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#19 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/15/2021 #5

In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold, Penicillium Notantum. #AlexanderFleming
#AlexanderFleming #Penicillin #Nobel

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#20 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/24/2021 #3

In 1898, Howard Walter Florey was born in Adelaide, Australia. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1945, with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for the development of penicillin. Florey and Chain were central as they turned penicillin from Fleming’s discovery into a drug. #HowardFlorey #Penicillin #Nobel
#HowardFlorey #Penicillin #Nobel

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#21 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/09/2021 #13

In 2009, Obummer (Barack Hussein Obama II) won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. #Obummer #Nobel
#Obummer #Nobel

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#22 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/11/2021 #10

In 2002, former President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. #JimmyCarter #Nobel
#JimmyCarter #Nobel

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#23 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/12/2021 #13

In 2007, Former Vice President Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr. and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming. #AlGore #Nobel
An alarm no world “leaders” listened to ——
#AlGore #Nobel

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#24 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/13/2021 #10

In 2016, Robert “Bob” Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature. #BobDylan #Nobel
He was criticized for not immediately jumping for joy.

Criticized as ‘impolite and arrogant’ by Nobel academy member.

#BobDylan #Nobel

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#25 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/14/2021 #8

In 1964, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. #MLK #Nobel
#MLK #Nobel

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#26 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/15/2021 #9

In 1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. #MikhailGorbachev #Nobel
#MikhailGorbachev #Nobel

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#27 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/18/2021 #9

In 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Harry Compton Crick and Maurice Hugh Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. #DNA #Nobel
#DNA #Nobel

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#28 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/21/2021 #2

In 1833, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who invented dynamite, was born in Stockholm, Sweden. After reading a newspaper article condemning him for profiting from the sales of arms, he decided to bequeath his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes each year. #AlfredNobel #Nobel
I think his conscience got the better of him.
#AlfredNobel #Nobel

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#29 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/25/2021 #4

In 1962, American author John Ernst Steinbeck was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. #JohnSteinbeck #Nobel
#JohnSteinbeck #Nobel

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#30 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/07/2021 #1

In 1867, Nobel Prize scientist Marie Curie (Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie) was born in Warsaw. #MarieCurie #Nobel
#MarieCurie #Nobel

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#31 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/09/2021 #2

In 1921, Albert Einstein was named as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. #AlbertEinstein #Nobel
#AlbertEinstein #Nobel

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#32 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/11/2021 #16

In 2021, Frederik Willem de Klerk died at 85. #FWDeKlerk #Nobel
#FWDeKlerk #Nobel

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#33 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/08/2021 #3

Nobel Prize Physics laureate Syukuro Manabe poses with the award during a ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
Syukuro “Suki” Manabe #SyukuroManabe #Nobel

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#34 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/10/2021 #6

In 1953, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his mastery of historical and biographical description, as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.” It had primarily been awarded for his multi-volume war memoirs. #WinstonChurchill #Nobel
They threw him a bone to add to his
honors for navigating World War Two.
#WinstonChurchill #Nobel

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#35 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/10/2021 #16

In 2009, Obummer (Barack Hussein Obama II) accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a humble brag acknowledgment of his scant accomplishments and a robust defense of the U.S. at war. #Obummer #Nobel
“Humble acknowledgement” my ass. He didn’t deserve it.
Humility would have been to not accept it at all.
#Obummer #Nobel

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#36 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/10/2021 #8

In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepted it “with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind”. #MLK #Nobel
#MLK #Nobel

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#37 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/10/2021 #14

In 2007, former Vice President Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment. #AlGore #Nobel
#AlGore #Nobel

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#38 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/10/2021 #4

In 1906, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Jr. became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating in the Russo-Japanese War. #TheodoreRoosevelt #Nobel
#TheodoreRoosevelt #Nobel

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#39 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/10/2021 #5

In 1907, Joseph Rudyard Kipling became the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. #RudyardKipling #Nobel
#RudyardKipling #Nobel

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#40 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/26/2021 #19

In 2021, South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Mpilo Tutu died at 90; the retired archbishop had been an uncompromising foe of apartheid and an activist for racial justice and LGBT rights. #DesmondTutu #Nobel
#DesmondTutu #Nobel

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#41 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/04/2022 #6

In 1960, Albert Camus died in a car accident (aged 46). #AlbertCamus #Nobel
#AlbertCamus #Nobel

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#42 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/04/2022 #7

In 1965, Thomas Stearns Eliot died (aged 76). #TSEliot #Nobel
#TSEliot #Nobel

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#43 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/07/2022 #4

In 1885, Harry Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist and social critic, who became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born. #SinclairLewis #Nobel
#SinclairLewis #Nobel

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#44 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/10/2022 #4

In 1923, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, died (aged 77). He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays, which earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. #WilhelmRontgen #Nobel
#WilhelmRontgen #Nobel

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#45 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/13/2022 #10

In 1974, Nobel Prize winner Russian author Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn #Nobel
#AleksandrSolzhenitsyn #Nobel

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#46 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/06/2022 #10

In 1973, Nobel Prize winning author Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck, 80, died in Danby, VT. #PearlBuck #Nobel
#PearlBuck #Nobel

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#47 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/11/2022 #5

In 1955, Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, died in London at age 73. #AlexanderFleming #Penicillin #Nobel
#AlexanderFleming #Penicillin #Nobel

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#48 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/21/2022 #2

In 1921, Soviet nuclear theoretical physicist and human rights advocate Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was born in Moscow. #AndreiSakharov #Nobel
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#49 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/27/2022 #11

In 1994, Nobel Prize author Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn #Nobel
#AleksandrSolzhenitsyn #Nobel

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#50 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/30/2022 #10

In 1960, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak died (aged 70). He was the author of Doctor Zhivago. #BorisPasternak #Nobel
#BorisPasternak #Nobel

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#51 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/13/2022 #20

In 2017, China’s most prominent political prisoner, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo died in prison of liver cancer at the age of 61. #LiuXiaobo #Nobel
#LiuXiaobo #Nobel

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#52 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/05/2022 #16

In 2019, Chloe Anthony Wofford “Toni” Morrison (Chloe Ardelia Wofford), the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, died at 88 in New York. #ToniMorrison #Nobel
#ToniMorrison #Nobel

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#53 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/06/2022 #2

In 1881, Sir Alexander Fleming was born in Lochfield, Scotland. #AlexanderFleming
#AlexanderFleming #Penicillin #Nobel

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#54 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 06/02/2023 #10

LINK #Nobel

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#55 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/10/2023 #1

Stockholm, Sweden • Journalists wait for the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel prize in physics, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The prize was jointly awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for ‘experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter’, the academy announced.
Pierre Agostini Ferenc Krausz Anne Geneviève L’Huillier #Nobel

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Journalists? Reporters is too generous a
term, messengers would be more accurate.

Michael T.

Journalism is a lost art. Now they just pass around
gossip and prepared (biased) press releases.

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#56 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 02/16/2025 #14

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#57 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/19/2025 #11

In 1993, Sir William Gerald Golding died (aged 81). He’s best known for Lord of the Flies. #WilliamGolding #Nobel
#WilliamGolding #Nobel

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#58 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/10/2025 #3

As the Norwegian Nobel Committee prepares to announce the Nobel Peace Prize Friday morning, Norwegians are preparing themselves for the ire of Twitler who has campaigned for months to get the coveted award. Twitler told reporters in June that the Nobel Committee “should give” him the prize, and that he “should have gotten it four or five times”.
#Nobel #Twitler

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Kinda appears to me that they trolled him.

Michael T.

Agree. They are clearly disgusted with his nonsense.

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#59 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/13/2026 #3

Pope Leo XIV meets Nobel peace laureate María Corina Machado of Venezuela inside the Vatican’s private library.
Pope Leo XIV (Robert Francis Prevost) #PopeLeoXIV
María Corina Machado Parisca #MariaMachado
 #Nobel

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#60 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/16/2026 #1

Twitler on Thursday greeted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House where she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal, which he accepted. Machado, leader of the Venezuela’s center-right Vente Venezuela party, was awarded the medal, which Twitler heavily campaigned for, last year for her work to promote democratic rights in her South American nation.
María Corina Machado Parisca #MariaMachado

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#61 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/17/2026 #1

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado is the only recognized recipient of the award despite the Venezuelan leader giving her medal to Twitler this week, the Nobel Committee said Friday.
Agolf Twitler (Donald John Trump) #Twitler
María Corina Machado Parisca #MariaMachado
Nobel Prize #Nobel

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#62 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 02/04/2026 #14

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