Hanna Stjärne, who is currently the Director General of Swedish Television, will be the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation.
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Amnesty International is a London-based non-governmental organisation focused on uncovering the facts about violations and breaches of human rights. Amnesty was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article ‘The Forgotten Prisoners’ in The Observer on 28 May 1961, by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Benenson got the idea for the organisation’s logo – the lit candle surrounded by barbed wire – from a Chinese proverb: “It is better to light a light than to curse the darkness.”
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Canadian author Alice Munro passed away on 15 May 2024. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 with the motivation “master of the contemporary short story”.
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Roger Guillemin passade away on 21 February, age 100. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 for discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.
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Physicist Peter Higgs passed away on 8 April 2024, age 94. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 for the theory of how particles acquire mass.
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Physicist Herbert Kroemer passed away on 8 March 2024, age 95. He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.
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