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This award is totally inappropriate. The idea that it is premature, as many have suggested, is clearly wrong, implying, as it does, that he will deserve it at some time in the future. I think not. There were many more worthy candidates and if Obama had any humility at all he would have turned it down.

And how well did the bribe work with Secretary Kissinger?

Dr Hill

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Well said and documented.

There is no doubt in my mind that President Obama is a very good man indeed, but the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him is too early in my mind. In this respect the wider world was not even aware of him just a mere three years ago. I am not saying that he was not a worthy candidate, but where there are more worthy people in this life who indirectly save millions of lives, are completely unknown for their effects on global peace work and are therefore never considered for the Nobel Award. This is the dilemma hovering over [...]

Read the full comment the Nobel Peace Prize. Have those who have won the Prize saved more lives that anyone else through their actions? Unfortunately I have to say that at this point in time I doubt that Obama can enter into such an illustrious group of people who have literally saved more lives than any others in our world history.
I had the privilege to work with two of the world’s most unknown celebrities who did indeed save millions of lives through their incredible work and where this work still saves millions every year all over the world. The first is the late Glenn Seaborg, the ‘father’ of the chemistry of Chemotherapy and initiator of the ‘Test Ban Treaty’ for Nuclear weapons. It is estimated that Seaborg through his chemistry and his creation of many of the chemical isotopes used in chemotherapy, has saved literally over 100 million human lives to date over the past 50-years alone. This has been through a cure or an extension of human life and where their loved ones have benefited through having these loved ones with them far longer than would have been the case without Seaborg’s incredible creativity. Many more millions of human lives ravaged by Cancer will be saved in the future and today. Indeed the number of people saved by the nuclear test ban initiation is incalculable, but one has to only think, where the world might be today without Seaborg’s initiative. Indeed, Nuclear war might well have happened already in our own lifetime.
The second person that I worked with was the late John Argyris, the modern-day inventor of the ‘Finite Element Method’. To put this great engineering achievement into perspective is hard to do for the layman, but where it has revolutionised global engineering design so much that we now have far safer cars, buildings, bridges, aeroplanes, dams, trains, and the list goes on. Indeed, without Argyris’s input for NASA’s pre-runner, the 1969 moon landing would never have happened and the space-shuttle may never have removed itself from planet Earth..
Adding to this today through Argyris’s revolutionary engineering work we live in a completely safer world and where his work has even spread into all the sciences, including physiology, where the minutest of stress in the human body can be detected and a patient’s life saved. Indeed, it is estimated again that Argyris has saved hundreds of millions through this far greater safety in structural design throughout the world, through buildings and dams et al not collapsing. But were these two great men of science and engineering who have saved literally millions and millions of lives ever considered by the Nobel Foundation for their Peace Prize by saving all these millions? No.
I therefore feel that the Nobel Prize as today belittles itself again, its real value and against those humanitarians who do truly deserve it. But there again it has to be said that Ghandi never received it, even though he was nominated five-times. In the year of his death, the Nobel Foundation said that there were no candidates worthy enough and did not award the Prize that year.

Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation
Bern, Switzerland