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Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan politician and environmental activist 

She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace

She became the first Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.

She was born on April 1, 1940, in Nyeri, Kenya

She died on September 25, 2011, in Nairobi

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The Order of the Rising Sun is one of Japan's highest honors

It was established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji

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Other Nobel Prizes in 2016:

• Peace: Juan Manuel Santos (Colombian President, for efforts to end the country’s 50-year civil war).
• Physics: David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz (for discoveries in topological phases of matter).
• Chemistry: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa (for the design and synthesis of molecular machines).
• Medicine: Yoshinori Ohsumi (for discoveries in autophagy, a cell recycling process).
• Economics: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström (for contributions to contract theory).

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• From 1901 to 2022, the United States received the most 400 Nobel Prizes.
• The country with the second highest number of Nobel Prizes is the United Kingdom with 138.
• Germany has  the second highest award at 111 and is also the third country with over 100 Nobel laureates.
  

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Nihon Hidankyo is honoured with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

This is an organization of Japan. 

Awarded for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. 

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The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Narges Mohammadi 

She is a human rights activist from Iran

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Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17 for her advocacy of girls' education

In October 2014, Malala, along with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi