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• Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993.
• First black president of South Africa: May 10, 1994, to 1999.
• Nelson Mandela International Day: July 18.
• Imprisoned in 1962, served 27 years in prison.
• Died on December 5, 2013.

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Explanation

There are six categories of the Nobel Prize:

Peace

Physics

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

Economics

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All Nobel price was Firstly invented by Alfred Nobel in 1901 except Nobel Prize in Economics was invented by Sveriges Riksbank  in 1968

History

Alfred Nobel (a Swedish chemist) initiated Nobel Prize in:

Peace

Physics

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

In 1901, Nobel Prize was first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden,

expected the Peace Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.

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Nobel Prize in Economics started in 1968

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize

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The first Noble Prize to be awarded to a South Asian was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore  

Year	Image	Laureate	Country at the time of the award	Category	Comment
1913		Rabindranath Tagore	British India	Literature	First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate

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Explanation

On October 12, 2007, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore is the co-winner, of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”

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Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan politician and environmental activist 

She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace

She became the first Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.

She was born on April 1, 1940, in Nyeri, Kenya

She died on September 25, 2011, in Nairobi

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The first Noble Prize was awarded on 10th December 1901

The first Noble Prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nobel prize by the inventor of the Dynamite, Alfred Nobel

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of

1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3.  Physiology/Medicine
4.  Literature
5.  Peace
6.  economics.

Additional information

a memorial prize in economic sciences was added in 1968.

The Nobel Prize for Economics was instituted in 1967 and 1st given in 1969

Explanation

Two persons of Pakistani origin have received the Nobel Prize: Abdus Salam (Physics, 1979) and Malala Yousafzai (Peace, 2014).

Abdus Salam was recognized for his work in theoretical physics, while Malala was honored for her activism in girls' education.

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