Albert Schweitzer wins Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “reverence for life,” expressed in–action by his founding and sustaining (over the decades) the Lambaréné Hospital in Gabon, west central Africa… Schweitzer and his wife had moved to (French) Gabon and founded Lambaréné in 1913 after Schweitzer had finished his medical studies.
In his mid–years back in Europe, Schweitzer developed noted careers in theology, music, philosophy, and, of course, his initial specialty, medicine.
Initially from Alsace–Lorraine (German–occupied at the time of Schweitzer’s birth, but returned to France after WWI), Schweitzer would spend his final years at Lambaréné (b. 1875; d. 1965).