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The Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after Ramon Magsaysay, the seventh President of the Philippines, to honor his example of integrity in governance.
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Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and stomach cancer.
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The Ramon Magsaysay Award recognizes greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia, including categories like Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.
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Nobel Prizes are awarded annually on December 10th, which marks the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The ceremony takes place in Stockholm and Oslo.
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Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for her 2009 war film 'The Hurt Locker'.
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Alfred Nobel's will established prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. Economics was added later, covering all these fields.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five persons selected by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting), unlike other prizes awarded in Sweden.
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Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes: the 1954 Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Peace Prize.
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The Nobel Prize is not awarded in Philosophy. The original categories were Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace, with Economics added later.
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Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and engineer who invented dynamite and used his vast fortune to posthumously institute the Nobel Prizes.