In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

Wangari Maathai, 2004: The first African woman to win a Nobel Peace prize died in 2011 at the age of 71. The New York Times describes her as an "environmentalist, feminist, politician, professor ...

Access to seeds and fertilisers has proven problematic for millions of farmers in Africa ... World Food Prize was founded in 1986 by Dr. Norman E Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.

Although the Nobel Prizes are known as some of the most prestigious awards in the world, they have sparked various debates ...

An experiment that hung rhinoceroses upside down to see what effect it had on the animals has been awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes ... which this year wins the award for transportation ...

became the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960. Similarly, Nelson Mandela, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 after spending 27 years in prison, was a true leader who ...

On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes (L), announces the anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo ...