History.com has
this for 11 October 2016:
On 11 October 2002,
former
President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as US president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key achievements as president was mediating peace talks between Israel and Egypt in 1978. The
Nobel Committee had wanted to give
Carter (1924- ) the prize in 1978 for his efforts, along with
Anwar Sadat and
Menachim Begin, but was prevented from doing so by a technicality, as he had not been nominated by the official deadline.
After he left office,
Carter and his wife
Rosalynn created the
Atlanta, Georgia-based
Carter Center in 1982 to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. Since 1984, they have worked with
Habitat for Humanity to build homes and raise awareness of homelessness. Among his many accomplishments,
Carter has helped to fight disease and improve economic growth in developing nations and has served as an observer at numerous political elections around the world.
The first
Nobel Prizes, awards established by Swedish industrialist
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) in his will, were handed out in Sweden in 1901 in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The
Nobel Prize in economics was first awarded in 1969.
Carter was the third American president to receive the award, worth a million dollars, following
Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and
Woodrow Wilson in 1919.
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