Betty Williams
Betty Williams
The Nobel Peace Prize 1976
Co-nobelist: Mairead Corrigan
Name: Betty Williams
Birth: 22 May 1943, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Death: 17 March, 2020, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Institution: United Kingdom
Award: Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977.
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Education: Education: St. Teresa’s Primary School, Belfast & St. Dominic’s Grammar school.
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977.
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Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy
Betty Williams, not wanting to continue to receive a salary from the organization she founded with Ciaran McKeown and Mairead Corrigan, the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People), kept the Noble Prize money for herself.
Co Nobelist Mairead Corrigan did the same.