Lester Bowles Pearson

Nobel Prize in Peace 1957

“for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis”

Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian diplomat and politician. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis. He later served as Prime Minister of Canada.