For what did the quakers win the Nobel Prize? I read that the Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and the American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) won the Noble Peace prize in 1947. Does anyone know what for exactly. I would think it was for something to do with the second world war, but I'm not sure.
The Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and the American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) were actually nominated several times for the peace prize prior to winning it in 1947. 


  on each occasion the nominations had been influenced by Quaker relief
  work with the victims of war and famine.


In the aftermath of World War II, the Quakers continued their work.


  providing assistance for the needy without discrimination in Germany,
  elsewhere in Europe and in Asia, just as they had in the aftermath of
  World War 1


Source: quaker.org