The Nobel Literature and Peace Prizes have been merged for no other reason than there are not enough recipients to make a word cloud look – well like a word cloud.
Literature
Of the six recipients of the literature prize associated with Cambridge two were undergraduates: Bertrand Russell who matriculated at Trinity College in 1890 to study the mathematical tripos and Patrick White who matriculated at King’s in 1932. He studied modern languages (French and German). Russell was an academic whose output extended over mathematics, logic and philosophy and seems to have influenced just about everything. He was ardent advocate for the freedom of speech and a pacifist. Indeed, during the course of his career at Trinity College, Russell was sacked, reinstated, resigned and reappointed as a Fellow. He actively protested against WW1 and later nuclear armaments. He was sent to prison twice and avoided a third incarceration only through the sale of his books. White’s contribution was more traditional as he wrote 12 novels with an additional one publish posthumously and unfinished, three collections of short stories, two collections of poems, 11 plays and one screenplay.
Peace
There are three recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize: Austen Chamberlain (Trinity 1882), Philip Noel-Baker (King’s 1908) and Kim Dae-jung (visitor, 1993). Noel-Baker is possibly the only person to have won a Nobel prize and also an Olympic medal as he won the silver medal at the 1920 Antwerp games in the 1500m.