Arab and Arab-American Nobel Peace Prize Winners

For Peace

2005

Mohamed El-Baradee and International Atomic Energy Agency for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.

1994

Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority. For his efforts in creating peaceful solutions.

1978

Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat, President of the Arab Republic of Eygpt. For signing a Peace Treaty.

For Chemistry

1999

Ahmed Zewail for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.

1990

Elias James Corey for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.

For Medicine

1998

Ferid Murad 1/3 prize, for his discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.

For Literature

1988

Naguib Mahfouz, who through works in rich nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous- has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all of mankind.

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