The Nobel Peace Prize 1946
Awarded on: 1946-11-14
"for her lifelong work for the cause of peace"
Emily Greene Balch
Born: 1867-01-08 in Jamaica Plain, MA (now Boston, MA), USA
Gender: female
Field: American economist, academic, and Nobel Laureate
Biography
Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency.