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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their fights to defend freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov jointly won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”

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The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz)

were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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France’s highest military award is: the Legion of Honour

Britain’s highest military award is: Victoria Cross

India’s highest military award is: Param Vir Chakra

Japan’s highest military award is: The order of the Rising Sun

Pakistan’s highest military award is: Nishan-i-Haider

US’s highest military award is: the Medal of Honour

The highest military award of Israel is: the Medal of Valour

The highest military award in Bangladesh is: Bir Sreshtho

The highest military award in Belgium is: Military Cross

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James Peebles is given for the theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

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• Norman Borlaug was an American agronomist, died in 2009.

• Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.

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When it was announced that Boris Pasternak had been awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize, he was forced to decline it at the behest of Soviet authorities, who had banned Doctor Zhivago.

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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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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway on December 10th.

The ceremony takes place at Oslo City Hall.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on December 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

The other Nobel Prizes, such as Physics, Chemistry, and Literature, are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

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John B. Goodenough was the oldest recipient of Nobel Prize .

who received the award in Chemistry 2019

at the age of 97.