A total of 61 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 60 women. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows:
- 18 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize
- 17 have won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 12 have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 8 have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 4 have won the Nobel Prize in Physics
- 2 have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Prize in Physics
2020 – Andrea Mia Ghez
2018 – Donna Strickland-Dykaar
1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1903 – Marie Curie
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2022 – Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi
2020 – Jennifer Anne Doudna-Cate
2020 – Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier
2018 – Frances Hamilton Arnold-Bailey
2009 – Ada E. Yonath
1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie
1911 – Marie Curie
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2015 – Tú Y?uy?u
2014 – May-Britt Moser
2009 – Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2009 – Carol W. Greider
2008 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
2004 – Linda B. Buck
1995 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1988 – Gertrude B. Elion
1986 – Rita Levi-Montalcini
1983 – Barbara McClintock
1977 – Rosalyn Yalow
1947 – Gerty Cori
The Nobel Prize in Literature
2022 – Annie Ernaux
2020 – Louise Elisabeth Glück-Dranow
2018 – Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk-Fingas
2015 – Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich
2013 – Alice Ann Laidlaw Munro
2009 – Herta Müller
2007 – Doris Lessing
2004 – Elfriede Jelinek
1996 – Wislawa Szymborska
1993 – Toni Morrison
1991 – Nadine Gordimer
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1945 – Gabriela Mistral
1938 – Pearl Buck
1928 – Sigrid Undset
1926 – Grazia Deledda
1909 – Selma Lagerlöf
The Nobel Peace Prize
2021 Maria Angelita Aycardo
2018 Nadia Murad Basee Taha Shamdeen
2014 Malala Yousafzai Malik
2011 Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf
2011 Leymah Robert Gbowee
2011 Tawakkul ‘Abd us-Sal?m Khalid Karm?n
2004 – Wangari Maathai
2003 – Shirin Ebadi
1997 – Jody Williams
1992 – Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi
1982 – Alva Myrdal
1979 – Mother Teresa
1976 – Betty Williams
1976 – Mairead Corrigan
1946 – Emily Greene Balch
1931 – Jane Addams
1905 – Bertha von Suttner
The Prize in Economic Sciences
2019 – Esther Duflo Banerjee
2009 – Elinor Ostrom