Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso GarcĂa Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, making them the sixth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first to win independent of each other.
Myrdal in 1968
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal circa 1980
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist.
Myrdal in 1964
Myrdal in 1980
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal circa 1980