๐ปThe winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize is being announced Friday, an award intended to honour an individual or organization that has โdone the most or the best work for fraternity between nations.โ
๐The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the recipient in Oslo at about 11 a.m. (0900 GMT; 5 a.m. EDT).
๊ฆLast year's prize went to the World Food Programme, which was established in 1961 at the behest of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to fight hunger around the globe. The Rome-based U.N. agency was lauded for seeking to end starvation as โa weapon of war and conflict.โ
๐ทThe prestigious award is accompanied by a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.
๐ณOn Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize in physiology or medicine to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.
โThe Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists whose work found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
๐ธBenjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan were named as laureates of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for finding an easier and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make compounds, including medicines and pesticides.
๊งThe Nobel Prize for literature was awarded Friday to U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was recognized for his โuncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee."
๐Still to come Monday is the prize for outstanding work in the field economics.
