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Which African is a Nobel Prize Winners? |
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Page 1 of 2  The Nobel Prize is an international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for peace. In 1968, the Bank of Sweden instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe. Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 and later built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world. Sadly, his experiments that included explosive, resulted in accidents that killed several people, including Alfred's younger brother, Emil. Unhappy about the fact that his inventions were used for unintended purposes such warfare and massive killings, decided in his last will that much of his fortune was to be used to give prizes to those who have done their best for humanity in the field of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. By the time of his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel had 355 patents. African Nobel Prizes  2005: Egypt's Mohamed El Baradei,
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Becomes the third Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize, and the seventh African to win such a Nobel Peace Prize.
 2004: Wangari Maathai of Kenya becomes the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace".
2003: South African writer J.M. Coetzee wins the literature prize. 
2001: Ghanaian-born UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is awarded the peace prize jointly with the world body "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 18 March 2006 )
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