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• Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, writer, and teacher, who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2003 for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights, especially those of women and children in Iran. She was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to receive the award.

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About Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Co-winners: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Award given by: Royal Swedish Academy

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton is called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)

John Hopfield is an American scientist

Additional Information:

They are awarded Nobel Prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

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Mohamed ElBaradei was an Egyptian diplomat and scholar.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

He received for their efforts to promote nuclear disarmament and prevent nuclear proliferation.

He served as the Director General of the IAEA from 1997 to 2009.

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Yasir Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 alongside Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.

They were recognized for their efforts in establishing peace in the Middle East through the Oslo Accords.

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A country with the most Nobel laureates:​​ the United States has 403 Nobel laureates, as of 2022. 

Nobel Prizes

1 United States of America: 403

2 United Kingdom: 137

3 Germany: 111

4 France: 71

5 Sweden: 32

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The Order of the Rising Sun is one of Japan's highest honors

It was established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji

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Currently, the United States has won the highest number of Nobel Prizes with 400 from 1901 to 2021.

The nation with the next highest number of Nobel Prizes is the United Kingdom with 138.

Germany has won the next highest number of prizes with 111 and is the third country with more than 100 Nobel laureates

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Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia's last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine in June 2022.

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Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig have jointly won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics for research on banks and financial crises.

Ben Bernanke is an American economist.

Douglas Diamond, an economist from USA.

Philip Dybvig is also an economist from United States of America.

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 About Chemistry Nobel Prize 2024

Co-winners: David Baker, John Jumper,  Briton Demis

They are scientists from the United States of America (USA) 

Additional Inormation: 

Moungi Bawendi & Louis Brus of the USA along with Alexey Ekimov of Russia were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023.