| Year |
Nobel Laureate |
Sharkansky Laureate |
Sharkansky Laureate's Achievement |
| 2004 |
Wangari Maathai |
Coalition of the Willing: George W Bush, Iyad Allawi,
Tony Blair, John Howard, Aleksander Kwasniewski Jose Maria Aznar,
Silvio Berlusconi and the leaders of the other nations that joined
in the liberation of Iraq |
Reconstruction, democratization of Iraq |
| 2003 |
Shirin Ebadi |
Paul Wolfowitz
Tommy Franks
Paul Bremer
|
Liberation of Iraq |
| 2002 |
Jimmy Carter |
Donald Rumsfeld
Condoleezza Rice |
Defeat of Taliban; realignment of US national security
priorities |
| 2001 |
United Nations
Kofi Annan |
George W Bush
Rudy Giuliani
Passengers of flight 93
New York City Police and Fire Departments |
response to attacks of September 11 |
| 1999 |
Medecins Sans Frontieres |
Bill Clinton |
Removing Slobodan Milosevic from power |
| 1997 |
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jody Williams |
Uzi Gal |
Inventor of the Uzi submachine gun |
| 1996 |
Carlos Belo
Jose Ramos-Horta |
Carlos Belo
Jose Ramos-Horta |
|
| 1995 |
Joseph Rotblat
Pugwash Conferences |
Yitzhak Rabin
King Hussein |
Israel-Jordan peace treaty |
| 1994 |
Yasser Arafat
Shimon Peres
Yitzhak Rabin |
Salman Rushdie |
Standing up for literary freedom |
| 1993 |
Nelson Mandela
Willem de Klerk |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
|
| 1992 |
Rigoberta Menchu Tum |
Boris Yeltsin
Ronald Reagan |
Ending the Soviet Union |
| 1991 |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
George Bush |
Removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait |
| 1990 |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
Vaclav Havel |
Liberating Czechoslovakia from Communism |
| 1989 |
Dalai Lama |
Dalai Lama |
|
| 1986 |
Elie Wiesel |
Elie Wiesel |
|
| 1985 |
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War |
Edward Teller |
Appropriate nuclear deterrence |
| 1983 |
Lech Walesa |
Lech Walesa |
|
| 1982 |
Alva Myrdal
Alfonso Garcia Robles |
Margaret Thatcher |
Restoring freedom to the Falklands |
| 1981 |
UN High Commission for Refugees |
Menachem Begin |
Destroying Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor |
| 1980 |
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
World Health Organization |
Eradication of smallpox |
| 1979 |
Mother Teresa |
Planned Parenthood |
Family planning as a defense against overpopulation
and poverty |
| 1978 |
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin |
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin |
|
| 1976 |
Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan |
Jonathan Netanyahu |
Freeing hostages in raid at Entebbe airport |
| 1975 |
Andrei Sakharov |
Andrei Sakharov |
|
| 1970 |
Norman Borlaug |
Norman Borlaug |
|
| 1969 |
International Labor Organization |
Jan Palach |
Czech student who immolated himself to protest the
Soviet invasion |
| 1967 |
no prize awarded |
Levi Eshkol
Moshe Dayan
Yitzhak Rabin |
Winning the Six-day War, preserving Israel's existence |
| 1964 |
Martin Luther King, Jr |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
|
| 1963 |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
John F. Kennedy |
Visit to, statement of solidarity with West Berlin |
| 1962 |
Linus Pauling |
Isser Harel
Gideon Hausner |
Capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann |
| 1957 |
Lester Bowles Pearson |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Sending in the troops to enforce court order to integrate
Little Rock schools |
| 1948 |
no prize awarded |
United States Air Force,
Royal Air Force
|
Berlin Airlift |
| 1946 |
Emily Greene Balch
John Raleigh Mott
|
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal |
Bringing Nazi criminals to justice |
| 1945 |
Cordell Hull |
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman |
Ending World War II |
| 1944 |
International Committee of Red Cross |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Normandy Invasion |
| 1943 |
no prize awarded |
Mordecai Anielewicz |
Warsaw Ghetto uprising |
| 1942 |
no prize awarded |
General Montgomery;
Admiral Nimitz |
Victory at El Alamein;
Victory at Midway |
| 1941 |
no prize awarded |
Franklin Roosevelt;
General Zhukov and Red Army |
Lend-Lease Act;
Halting German advance in Russia |
| 1940 |
no prize awarded |
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force |
Battle of Britain |
I intend to fill in this list and award the prize retroactively for every
year going back to 1901. Please e-mail
me your nominations, or post your nomination in the comments section of
my blog, here