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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The winners this year were three women, two from Liberia and one from Yemen: Ellen Jonson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tewakkul Karman. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current president of Liberia. Leymah Gbowee is a peace activist, whose activities led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the first female president of Liberia. Tewakkul Karman is the woman who led protests in restive Yemen.
Some of those credited with chances to win the award this year are people who were involved in their countries in promoting the Arab Spring. One of them is Wael Ghonim, the former Google executive, who used the social networks to promote revolutions in Egypt.
Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who criticized the regime long before the revolution began, was also a candidate with a good chance to win the Nobel Prize.
Sima Samar, the head of Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payas Sardinas were also favorites of this year’s award.
One of the organizations that could have been expected to win is the Russian organization Memorial, a Russian civil rights group known for protecting refugees, and victims of political persecution and human rights violation in war zone.
The names of the nominees is to be classified for another 50 years. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarder 91 times since 1901. Last year winner was Chinese dissenter Li Xiaobo, who is serving a 11-year term in prison, which prompted China to react angrily and create its own Peace Prize called Confucius. The first winner of this prize was a former president of Taiwan, for promoting thawing of ties between the Republic of China and People’s Republic of China.
Nobel prizes in literature, chemistry, physics, psychology, medicine and literature have already been awarded earlier this week.
Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. Swedish Academy said the prize went to him because by the poetical images he conveyed he “gave a fresh access to reality.”
Daniel Schetman, an Israeli scientist, received the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, while on Tuesday, the Swedish Royal Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Brian P. Schmidt from Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess, from Johns Hopkins University. Their discovery was that the universe was apparently expanding at an accelerated rate.
The Nobel Prize in biology was awarded to Ralph Steinman, a biologist from Rockefeller University. The Nobel Prize in psychology was won by Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann.
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