Final selection of the Laureates is made by an international jury, chaired by Nobel Prize winners.
Almost all the laureates honoured thus far did their main work in America, and the majority are actually American (with a curiously high number of Scandinavian exceptions).
This year, the laureates of the Award are the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German Otto Group, Michael Otto, and former UNESCO Director-General, Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
The laureates were led by Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Wiesenthal Centre, and Dr. Ilya Altman, the Director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre.
In the months leading up to the Laureates' intervention, one of the most prominent and effective opponents of the kind of patent deform proposed by S. 507 has been Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA).
The three laureates were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, the 2004 Peace laureate, who died last September.
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The Director General met with the five laureates of the Eighth Edition of the Holocaust Essay Contest, organised by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Association "Verbe et Lumiere, " in presence of Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Dr. Ilya Altman, Director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre, together with Mr. Paul Schaffer, Holocaust survivor and Honorary President of Yad Vashem-France.
The other laureates to sign the letter are Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, Mairead Maguire of Ireland, South African Desmond Tutu, U.S. national Jody Williams, and Iran's Shirin Ebadi.
The research of the 2013 Laureates demonstrates exceptionally original approaches to fundamental research in the Physical Sciences, from contributing to better understanding climate change to advancing research on neurodegenerative diseases and potentially uncovering new energy sources.
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The United States is also unique in the scale on which it attracts human capital: of the 314 laureates who won their Nobel prize while working in the U.S., 102 (or 32%) were foreign born, including 15 Germans, 12 Canadians, 10 British, six Russians and six Chinese (twice as many as have received the award while working in China).
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Member States or Associate Members of UNESCO, non-governmental organizations and foundations that maintain official relations with UNESCO, especially those whose activities fall within the scope of the Prize, as well as former laureates of the Prize, qualified eminent personalities and any suitable person or civil society organization working for the advancement of a culture of peace, human rights, non-violence and tolerance in the world are invited to nominate candidates.
The LMB became a hotbed of research, producing nine Nobel Laureates since the 1950s.
The lines from United States through Russia represent the seven countries with the most Nobel laureates, in order.
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Whether you like your economics beautiful, like the 2011 Novel Laureates, or messy, like John Maynard Keynes, you don't get far without reliable statistics.
Seven of the eight 2010 laureates are Americans.
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In the United Kingdom alone, at least 20 Nobel Prize Laureates came to the country as migrants or refugees.
The panel, including two Nobel laureates, spent three months looking into the agency's finances.
Even though Dr. Borlaug is gone, the World Food Prize serves as an enduring tribute to him, and the recently opened Hall of Laureates in Des Moines is a place of inspiration for all from around the world to visit, learn, and be inspired by his motivation to confront and defeat hunger.
Newspaper explanations of the contributions of Nobel laureates in economics leave readers more confused than enlightened.
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The panel who will judge the finals include Nobel laureates, tech visionaries and household names in scientific research.
Previous Laureates of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize include the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi and Pope Shenouda III of the Egyptian Coptic Church.
Attendees included laureates from the two winning institutions (NIACE and the Infocentro Foundation of Venezuela), the Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain and Mrs Irina Bokova, the UNESCO Director General.
Some may be crackpots, but the list includes Nobel laureates (Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, Thomas Sargent) as well as other highly esteemed researchers (Robert Barro, John Cochrane, Eugene Fama, Greg Mankiw).
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Nobel laureates roamed the halls.
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Also, in a one-page letter released Thursday, the group's 50 American Nobel laureates urged President Clinton not to go ahead with the planned shield.
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The Malta Conferences are characterized by plenary lectures by Nobel Laureates, workshops on topics of importance in the Middle East and poster sessions.
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In just a little over a century, you already have the discovery of penicillin, the development of fibre-optics and the foundations of the internet and fourteen Nobel Laureates to your name.
And Edmund Phelps won't have to go far to have a celebratory beer with his fellow 2006 Nobel Laureates because all the Nobel Prizewinners so far this year are Americans, as you may have heard.
In cases where the site lists current affiliation, I used that to locate laureates (a German-born professor working at the University of Chicago when he won the prize would thus be listed under the United States).
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