NYT : Nobel Peace Prize Winners Since 1975

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Since 1975

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | October 12, 2007

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:

-- 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change.

-- 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded.

-- 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

-- 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.

-- 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.

-- 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.

-- 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

-- 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.

-- 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).

-- 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.

-- 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.

-- 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.

-- 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

-- 1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.

-- 1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, South Africa.

-- 1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.

-- 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).

-- 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.

-- 1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet.

-- 1988: The U.N. Peacekeeping Forces.

-- 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.

-- 1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.

-- 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United States.

-- 1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa.

-- 1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.

-- 1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden; Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.

-- 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.

-- 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.

-- 1979: Mother Teresa, India.

-- 1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt; Menachem Begin, Israel.

-- 1977: Amnesty International, Britain.

-- 1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland.

-- 1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union.