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Emily Greene Balch

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Emily Greene Balch
Born(1867-01-08)January 8, 1867
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 9, 1961(1961-01-09) (aged 94)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer, economist, professor
Known forNobel 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.