Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is perhaps the world’s most popular philanthropist ever. A woman of many nations, this Catholic nun was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in North Macedonia. She became known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta as an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun. Thanks to her large heart, she established the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, an organization of which she was an active member.

In 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her missionary work, a venture she took up at 12. She left home and joined a convent before starting work in the Calcutta slums to help the downtrodden and later moving across the world.

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