# Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1930 to 1949

Every Nobel Peace Prize laureate between 1930 and 1949, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Who deserved it most?

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- Jan 7, 2023 · temucobrujula
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## Top 16

1. **Nathan Söderblom** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — 1930. For promoting Christian unity and helping create 'that new attitude of mind which is necessary if peace between nations is to become reality'.
2. **Jane Addams** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — 1931. For their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind.
3. **Nicholas Murray Butler** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1931. For their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind.
4. **Carl von Ossietzky** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1935. For his burning love for freedom of thought and expression and his valuable contribution to the cause of peace.
5. **Cordell Hull** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1945. For his indefatigable work for international understanding and his pivotal role in establishing the United Nations.
6. **The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1937. For his tireless effort in support of the League of Nations, disarmament and peace.
7. **Lord Boyd-Orr** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1949. For his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war.
8. **Carlos Saavedra Lamas** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1936. For his role as father of the Argentine Antiwar Pact of 1933, which he also used as a means to mediate peace between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935.
9. **Sir Norman Angell** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1933. For having exposed by his pen the illusion of war and presented a convincing plea for international cooperation and peace.
10. **John Raleigh Mott** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1946. For his contribution to the creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries.
11. **Arthur Henderson** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1934. For his untiring struggle and his courageous efforts as Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1931-34.
12. **Emily Greene Balch** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1946. For her lifelong work for the cause of peace.
13. **American Friends Service Committee** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1947. For their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations.
14. **Friends Service Council** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1947. For their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations.
15. **International Committee of the Red Cross** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1944. For the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity.
16. **Nansen International Office for Refugees** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1938. For having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe.

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