Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer, becomes the first muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on women’s rights and political change in Iran.
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The Nobel Prize committee mistakenly notifies Donald O. Cram, a California carpet cleaner, that he is the recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; the prize was given to Dr. Donald J. Cram of UCLA.
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Polish exile and American immigrant Czeslaw Milosz tells reporters on the day of his Nobel Prize win that he wants to continue with his quiet life, teaching in Berkeley, California and translating The Bible into Polish.
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Author Saul Bellow holds a rare press conference after his novel, "Humboldt’s Gift" wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 — the latest in a long list of awards for his fiction, much of which seems to parallel his own life.
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A profile of Herbert Hauptman, one of two American scientists awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of molecular magnification.
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Just days after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, novelist Nadine Gordimer talks about her form of "political writing," and her hopes of drawing international attention to apartheid in South Africa, the subject of much of her work.
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Exiled Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm, four years after he was awarded it. The ceremony was boycotted by Soviet and other Communist ambassadors.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa wins the 1984 Nobel Peace Price for his non-violent struggle again Apartheid. NBC’s Tom Brokaw interviews the Bishop about the human rights violations in South Africa.
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