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
2010 – Andre Geim
2010 – Konstantin Novoselov
2009 – Charles K. Kao
2009 – Willard S. Boyle
2009 – George E. Smith
2008 – Yoichiro Nambu
2008 – Makoto Kobayashi
2008 – Toshihide Maskawa
2007 – Albert Fert
2007 – Peter Grünberg
2006 – John C. Mather
2006 – George F. Smoot
2005 – Roy J. Glauber
2005 – John L. Hall
2005 – Theodor W. Hänsch
2004 – David J. Gross
2004 – H. David Politzer
2004 – Frank Wilczek
2003 – Alexei A. Abrikosov
2003 – Vitaly L. Ginzburg
2003 – Anthony J. Leggett
2002 – Raymond Davis Jr.
2002 – Masatoshi Koshiba
2002 – Riccardo Giacconi
2001 – Eric A. Cornell
2001 – Wolfgang Ketterle
2001 – Carl E. Wieman
2000 – Zhores I. Alferov
2000 – Herbert Kroemer
2000 – Jack S. Kilby
2010 – Peter A. Diamond
2010 – Dale T. Mortensen
2010 – Christopher A. Pissarides
2009 – Elinor Ostrom
2009 – Oliver E. Williamson
2008 – Paul Krugman
2007 – Leonid Hurwicz
2007 – Eric S. Maskin
2007 – Roger B. Myerson
2006 – Edmund S. Phelps
2005 – Robert J. Aumann
2005 – Thomas C. Schelling
2004 – Finn E. Kydland
2004 – Edward C. Prescott
2003 – Robert F. Engle III
2003 – Clive W.J. Granger
2002 – Daniel Kahneman
2002 – Vernon L. Smith
2001 – George A. Akerlof
2001 – A. Michael Spence
2001 – Joseph E. Stiglitz
2000 – James J. Heckman
2000 – Daniel L. McFadden
1. When did Hans Spemann get Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1935
b) 1929
c) 1945
d) 1948
2. When was Hans Spemann born?
a) 27 June 1869
b) 8 March 1872
c) 6 August 1861
d) 1 November 1868
3. Where was Hans Spemann born?
a) Heidelberg
b) Stuttgart
c) Munich
d) Wurzburg
1. When did Ivan Pavlov get Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1904
b) 1929
c) 1945
d) 1948
2. Where was Ivan Pavlov born?
a) Kazan
b) Penza
c) Ryazan
d) Saransk
3. Which university did Ivan Pavlov attend?
a) Moscow
b) St. Petersburg
c) Vienna
d) Berlin
2010 – Richard F. Heck
2010 – Ei-ichi Negishi
2010 – Akira Suzuki
2009 – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
2009 – Thomas A. Steitz
2009 – Ada E. Yonath
2008 – Osamu Shimomura
2008 – Martin Chalfie
2008 – Roger Y. Tsien
2007 – Gerhard Ertl
2006 – Roger D. Kornberg
2005 – Yves Chauvin
2005 – Robert H. Grubbs
2005 – Richard R. Schrock
2004 – Aaron Ciechanover
2004 – Avram Hershko
2004 – Irwin Rose
2003 – Peter Agre
2003 – Roderick MacKinnon
2002 – John B. Fenn
2002 – Koichi Tanaka
2002 – Kurt Wüthrich
2001 – William S. Knowles
2001 – Ryoji Noyori
2001 – K. Barry Sharpless
2000 – Alan J. Heeger
2000 – Alan G. MacDiarmid
2000 – Hideki Shirakawa
2010 – Robert G. Edwards
2009 – Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2009 – Carol W. Greider
2009 – Jack W. Szostak
2008 – Harald zur Hausen
2008 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
2008 – Luc Montagnier
2007 – Mario R. Capecchi
2007 – Sir Martin J. Evans
2007 – Oliver Smithies
2006 – Andrew Z. Fire
2006 – Craig C. Mello
2005 – Barry J. Marshall
2005 – J. Robin Warren
2004 – Richard Axel
2004 – Linda B. Buck
2003 – Paul C. Lauterbur
2003 – Sir Peter Mansfield
2002 – Sydney Brenner
2002 – H. Robert Horvitz
2002 – John E. Sulston
2001 – Leland H. Hartwell
2001 – Tim Hunt
2001 – Sir Paul M. Nurse
2000 – Arvid Carlsson
2000 – Paul Greengard
2000 – Eric R. Kandel
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy.
2010 – Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 – Herta Müller
2008 – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007 – Doris Lessing
2006 – Orhan Pamuk
2005 – Harold Pinter
2004 – Elfriede Jelinek
2003 – John M. Coetzee
2002 – Imre Kertész
2001 – Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000 – Gao Xingjian
1. When did Ernesto Orlando Lawrence win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) 1933
b) 1939
c) 1944
d) 1947
2. When was Ernesto Orlando Lawrence born?
a) 7 January 1896
b) 12 May 1898
c) 8 August 1901
d) 5 October 1895
3. Where was Ernesto Orlando Lawrence born?
a) Canton
b) Sacramento
c) Albany
d) Birmingham
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