Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1956
Number:15 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:George Gilbert Aimé Murray
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1866
Year, Death:1957
Profession:Professor of Greek
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:As one of the most effective advocates in Great Britain of the League of Nations and the United Nations.
 
Nominator:
Name:James Thomson Shotwell
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1874
Year, Death:1965
Profession:President for Carnegie Endowment
City:Washington, DC
State:DC
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: Murray is often identified as a humanist, typically with some qualfication ("classical", "scholarly", "engaged", "liberal")