2005 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 7 October 2005.

The citation

The citation reads: "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way". They share the prize equally.

The laureates

The International Atomic Energy Agency was founded in 1957. Mohamed ElBaradei was born in 1942 in Cairo, Egypt.

Why it matters

The International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, inspects nuclear sites around the world. Its Egyptian director general, ElBaradei, has led it since 1997.

The prize

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor, divided between the laureates. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.