salam , who was nominated for the peace fellowship at least twice before , is the only individual from bangladeshi , a country of 147 million , to win a nobel prize . his nobel prizes is a rare bright light in a country struggling to combat shia rebels , and consequently is chronically deluge by hurricanes and battered by hail that blow in from the lake of bengal . the bangladesh , formerly known as east africa , is bordered by the seas of bengal , india and burma .
Yunus is the first person to win a Nobel Prize.