Question

The Nobel Peace Prize, 2020 was awarded to which of the following organisations ?
1. World Food Programme
2. United Nations Development Programme
3. World Health Organisation
4. World Bank

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : World Food Programme

The correct answer is World Food Programme

• WFP
  • The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which provides lifesaving food assistance to millions across the world – often in extremely dangerous and hard-to-access conditions – has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 

• ​​​The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
  • ​Syukuro Manabe
    “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”
  • Klaus Hasselmann
    “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”
  • Giorgio Parisi
    “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
  • ​Benjamin List
    “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”
  • David W.C. MacMillan
    “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”
• The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
  • ​David Julius
    “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”
  • Ardem Patapoutian
    “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”
• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
  • ​Abdulrazak Gurnah
    “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”
• The Nobel Peace Prize 2021
  • ​Maria Ressa
    “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”
  • Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov
    “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”
• The Nobel Prize in Economy 2021
  • ​David Card
    “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”
  • Joshua D. Angrist
    “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”
  • Guido W. Imbens
    “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”​