I chose Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the Nobel Peace Prize winners of 1976. I chose them mainly because I wanted to find winners from the year 1976, and I wanted to find women winners. They were the first I found. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan actually received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977. During the selection process in 1976, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can be reserved until the following year, and this was then applied. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan therefore received their Nobel Prize for 1976 one year later, in 1977. They split the prize in
