40 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2009. Marie Curie has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Thus, the Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 41 times between 1901 and 2009.
The Nobel Prize in Physics
1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1903 – Marie Curie
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2009 – Ada E. Yonath
1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie
1911 – Marie Curie
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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
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
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
2009 – Elinor Ostrom
Originally posted 2016-05-20 20:19:29.
