Nobel Peace Prize, Trump
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The Nobel Peace Prize has never been given to a city in the past, typically only going to individuals and organizations.
President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 "for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia," according to the Nobel Prize's website.
The Nobel Foundation firmly rejected Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado's symbolic transfer of her Peace Prize to Trump, stating prizes cannot be passed on.
President Donald Trump has long wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, and was gifted the medal awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
The Nobel Peace Prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, comprising five members appointed by Norway's parliament. Its independence is often questioned, especially by foreign governments. Nominees are assessed by experts,
Many have wondered why the Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu never won a share of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for her experimental verification of parity violation. Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal the true story after becoming the first people to open that year’s Nobel archives