Emily Greene Balch
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | January 8, 1867
Died | January 9, 1961 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 94)
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Writer, economist, professor |
Known for | Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 |
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) was an economist and pacifist, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 with John Raleigh Mott (1865–1955). Both laureates were American.
She was born in Massachusetts, U.S., and after graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, she began teaching at Wellesley College in 1896.