Wangari Muta Maathai (b. Ihithe, Tetu, Kenya, 1940 – d. 2011, Nairobi, Kenya) was a scientist, activist, politician, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004). She was one of several hundred students from Kenya who received scholarships to study in the United States under a special initiative in 1959–1963. She received her first two degrees during her years in the United States in 1960–1966 and carried out doctoral research at the University of Giessen and the University of Munich in Germany. She completed a doctorate in veterinary anatomy from the University of Nairobi in 1971, becoming the first woman from East Africa to hold a PhD. Her activism began in the early 1970s, and she eventually founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, which seeks to train and empower women and combat deforestation. She was a member of parliament in Kenya in 2002–2007 and Assistant Minister in the Ministry for Environment and Natural Resources in 2003–2005.
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