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Since 1902, the King of Sweden has, with the exception of the Peace Prize, presented all the prizes in Stockholm. At first King Oscar II did not approve of awarding grand prizes to foreigners, but is said to have changed his mind once his attention had been drawn to the publicity value of the prizes for Sweden.
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The 1960 Peace Prize, awarded in 1961, was a ground breaking one. The peace laureate Albert John Luthuli, formerly President of the African National Congress, had long engaged in a peaceful struggle against apartheid. Abrams makes the important point that "it was noteworthy that the Committee had finally found a laureate outside the limits of western civilization."80 Perhaps it was this Eurocentrism, the pre-war Norwegian international bias or, the interpretation preferred by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Gandhi's untimely death, more than any British political pressure, that defeated the honouring of the Mahatma. As Sverdrup comments:
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UCSB Economics is delighted to announce that Finn Kydland has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Professor Edward Prescott of Arizona State University. The prize was awarded for their research on business cycles and macroeconomic policy. Kydland joined the UCSB faculty in July 2004, and holds the Jeff Henley Chair in Economics.
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[T]here was to be no other posthumous award of the Nobel Prize until another Swede, United Nations General Secretary, Dag Hammarskjöld, received the Peace Prize in 1961. The Foundation claims that this was "the first posthumous award in the history of the Prize."73
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There are just three laureates who were born in Australia, educated to tertiary level here, and performed the work for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in this country. They are Macfarlane Burnet (Physiology or Medicine, 1960), John Eccles (Physiology or Medicine, 1963) and Peter Doherty (Physiology or Medicine, 1996).
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Dr. Mello was co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the discovery of "RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA." Among his other honors, Dr. Mello has earned Brandeis University's Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Medical Research, the Canadian government's Gairdner International Award and the prestigious Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.
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