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The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2020 was awarded to three astrophysicists Roger Penrose from the UK, Reinhard Genzel from Germany, and Andrea Ghez from the USA.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”,

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The committee of the Norwegian Parliament awards the prize for peace.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting .

The Norwegian Nobel Committee 2019.

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 The Nobel Peace Prize has seen the largest number of women laureates compared to other Nobel Prize categories.

The Peace Prize has been awarded to women 17 times,

• Literature has seen 14
• Medicine 12
• Chemistry 5
• Physics 3
• Economics 1

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Dr Amjad Saqib: a philanthropist (founder of Akhuwat)

Akhuwat: largest interest-free microfinance programme of Pakistan

Dr Amjad Saqib started his career: 1985 (joined CSP)

Dr Amjad Saqib nominated for Nobel Prize for: humanitarian work in poverty alleviation

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The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to:

1. the Human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus,
2. the Russian human rights organization Memorial
3. the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.

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Nihon Hidankyo is honoured with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

This is an organization of Japan. 

Awarded for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. 

Additional Information:

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Narges Mohammadi 

She is a human rights activist from Iran

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Svante Paabo won the 2022 Noble Prize in Medicine for Sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal

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• Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize for his discoveries in human evolution. 
• The Sweden-based geneticist produced a full Neanderthal genome by extracting genetic material from 40,000-year-old bones
• research led to the first mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19
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• Svante Pääbo ForMemRS is a Swedish geneticist who specializes in the field of evolutionary genetics.
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• Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

• Frederick Sanger won first Nobel Prize in 1958 and second in 1980.
• Frederick Sanger died in 2013 in England.

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Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry.

Born: November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland

Died: July 4, 1934, Passy, France

Discovered: Radium, Polonium

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Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate received several awards in 2021.

About Malala Yousafzai