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    Who else besides Al Gore among Nobel Prize Laurates have ever donated all or part of their prize money?

    Question #87210. Asked by uclageographer. (Oct 12 07 1:20 PM)


    lanfranco

    		Here are two, an astrophysicist and an economist, who did so. I believe that Muhammed Yunus, last year's Peace Prize winner, was also intending to donate his winnings, but I do not know whether he did:




    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/03/22/state/n140056D96.DTL&type=printable

    Oct 12 07, 1:32 PM
    22crows

    		Theodore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize 1905

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE3D7103BEE3ABC4F53DFB1668383609EDE

    Oct 12 07, 6:50 PM
    star_gazer

    		In 1979, Mother Teresa used her Nobel Peace Prize cash award of $192,000 to help finance her charitable work helping India's poor.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/03/22/state/n140056D96.DTL&type=printable

    Oct 13 07, 8:14 AM

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