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Alva Myrdal

1902 - 1986

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Alva Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-, Swedish: [ˈǎlːva ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, making them the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alva Myrdal is the 18th most popular diplomat, the 82nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 104th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Diplomat.

Alva Myrdal is most famous for being the co-author of the book "Women's Two Roles."

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Alva Myrdal ranks 18 out of 90. Before her are Antony Blinken, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Adlai Stevenson II, Mohamed ElBaradei, Madeleine Albright, and Lucien Bonaparte. After her are Folke Bernadotte, Jean Kennedy Smith, Chaim Herzog, Chiune Sugihara, Hasekura Tsunenaga, and Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alva Myrdal ranks 23. Before her are Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Talcott Parsons, André Michel Lwoff, and Josemaría Escrivá. After her are William Wyler, Margaret Hamilton, Nâzım Hikmet, Andrew Irvine, Marcel Breuer, and Meyer Lansky. Among people deceased in 1986, Alva Myrdal ranks 20. Before her are Frank Herbert, Urho Kekkonen, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Cliff Burton, Joseph Beuys, and Albert Szent-Györgyi. After her are Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, Michael J. Smith, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, and Celâl Bayar.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alva Myrdal ranks 82 out of 1,879. Before her are Magnus I of Sweden (1106), Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Carl Larsson (1853), Marie Taglioni (1804), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), and Keke Rosberg (1948). After her are Stellan Skarsgård (1951), Hugo Theorell (1903), Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), Sven Hedin (1865), Avicii (1989), and Eric the Victorious (945).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

Among diplomats born in Sweden, Alva Myrdal ranks 3. Before her are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), and Raoul Wallenberg (1912). After her are Folke Bernadotte (1895), and Hans Blix (1928).

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