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
