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 – 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
<2>Nobel Prize 2011 Quiz Questions
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine?
a) Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffman, Ralph Steinman
b) Francoise Barre-Sinousi, Luc Montagnier, Harald zur Hausen
c) Carol W. Greider, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Jack W. Szostak
d) Johannes Fibiger
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine given?
a) Work on serum therapy
b) Work on Anaphylaxis
c) Discoveries concerning the the activation of innate immunity and discovery of the dendtritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity
d) Improvement in surgical instruments
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Physics?
a) Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess
b) Gabriel Lippmann
c) Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George Smith
d) Werner Heisenberg