Malaysia’s Nobel journey

Malaysia’s first Nobel Peace Prize: Nasarudin Mohd Yusof won a Nobel Peace Prize 2013 award and certificate as a member of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

MALAYSIA is no stranger to winning Nobel Prize awards.

In 2013, then 52-year-old Lt Kol (Rtd) Mohd Nasarudin Yusof, a retired Armed Forces personnel became the first Malaysian awarded the Nobel Peace Prize which was conferred to his team – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental group working to ensure the disarmament of chemical weapons around the globe.