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Betty Williams

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Betty Williams

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Also known as Elisabeth Smyth, Elizabeth Williams

Northern Irish peace activist (1943–2020)

OverviewAI-generated

Betty Williams (1943–2020) was a Northern Irish figure recognized in the Nobel Peace collection. She is associated with a body of work that includes titles such as *Paleo Baking Cookbook for Beginners*, *Strength Training Guide for Soccer*, and *Vegan Snack and Munchies Cookbook*. Her bibliography also features *Instant Pot Beans Cookbook* and *Juicing for Eye Health*.

In a separate context, a US-based male artist named Betty Williams is categorized under genres including American composer and cinematic classical. This individual is noted as an Academy Award winner and a 2008 universal fire victim. The name Betty Williams appears in various databases, with one source listing 137 works and another citing five.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
137

Top works

  • Paleo Baking Cookbook for Beginners
  • Strength Training Guide for Soccer
  • Vegan Snack and Munchies Cookbook
  • Instant Pot Beans Cookbook
  • Juicing for Eye Health

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1932-02-08
2008 universal fire victimacademy award winneramericanamerican composercinematic classicalclassical

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,527x

  2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    · 2006 · cited 28,981x

  3. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    · 1986 · cited 24,415x

  4. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,302x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Peace Prize1976

    “for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Elisabeth
Family name
Williams
Gender
female
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Belfast
Place of death
Belfast
Occupation
peace activist
Employer
Sam Houston State University
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
Catholicism
Award
Carl von Ossietzky Medal
Image
Betty Williams W 134 Nr 105602v Bild 1 (5-1049846-1) (cropped).jpg
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Commons category
Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)
Commons gallery
Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Art+Feminism
member of
Nobel Women's Initiative
date of death
2020-03-17
name in native language
Betty Williams
date of birth
1943-05-22
Sources (9)

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Encyclopedic overview

Elizabeth Williams (née Smyth; 22 May 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Williams headed the Global Children's Foundation and was the President of the World Centre of Compassion for Children International. She was also the Chair of Institute for Asian Democracy in Washington D.C. She lectured widely on topics of peace, education, inter-cultural and inter-faith understanding, anti-extremism, and children's rights.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Betty Williams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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