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

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi is the only person to win a Nobel Prize while under house arrest. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate suffered the predicament for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar, formerly Burma. She was the leader of the state’s opposing junta. In 2015, she assumed the country’s leadership when her National League for Democracy-founded party won in a landslide.

The complicated and controversial Kyi was dethroned in 2021 by the military and placed under detention again. Although she ruled with an iron fist, particularly against the Muslim Rohingya minority, she’s credited with helping Myanmar partially transition from military rule to democracy.

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