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. So, 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
1. When was the First Anglo-Burmese War?
a) 1804-1806
b) 1824-1826
c) 1756
d) 1764
2. Where did Thibaw, last king of Burma, die?
a) Rangoon
b) Mandalay
c) Calcutta
d) Ratnagiri
3. When was Burma separated from India?
a) 1914
b) 1915
c) 1937
d) 1950
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five persons who are chosen by the Norwegian Storting.
2010 – Liu Xiaobo
2009 – Barack H. Obama
2008 – Martti Ahtisaari
2007 – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007 – Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006 – Muhammad Yunus
2006 – Grameen Bank
2005 – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
2005 – Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 – Wangari Muta Maathai
2003 – Shirin Ebadi
2002 – Jimmy Carter
2001 – United Nations (U.N.)
2001 – Kofi Annan
2000 – Kim Dae-jung