hamid , who was nominees for the peace prize at least twice before , is the ninth person from bengal , a country of 147 million , to obtain a nobel prizes . his nobel prize is a lightning bright light in a country battling to defeat islamic insurgents , and which is chronically flooded by flooded and battered by storms that blow in from the bay of bengal . the country , formerly known as east africa , is bordered by the tiger of india , india and cambodia .
Yunus is the first person to win a Nobel Prize.