Female Winners of The Nobel Prize
Two years after the Nobel Foundation was established in 1901, a Nobel Prize was awarded to Marie Curie in Physics for the first time in 1903. It’s a common knowledge that she won a second one in Chemistry, in 1911. Significantly, it was also a woman, Bertha von Suttner, whose influence convinced Alfred Nobel to establish a Prize for Peace.
Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since, but in very small numbers compared to their male colleagues. It took 40 years from its inception in Economic Sciences (1969) to be awarded to a woman, Elinor Ostrom.
Female Nobel Laureates
Female Noble Prize Winners in Economics:
2009 Elinor Ostrom
Female Noble Prize Winners in Physics:
1903 Marie Sklodowska Curie
1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer
Female Noble Prize Winners in Chemistry:
1911 Marie Sklodowska Curie
1935 Irene Joliot-Curie
1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
2009 Ada E. Yonath
Female Noble Prize Winners in Physiology and Medicine:
1947 Gerty Radnitz Cori
1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1983 Barbara McClintock
1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 Gertrude Elion
1995 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
2004 Linda B. Buck
2008 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
2009 Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2009 Carol W. Greider
Female Noble Peace Prize Winners:
1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner
1931 Jane Addams
1946 Emily Greene Balch
1976 Betty Williams
1976 Mairead Corrigan
1979 Mother Teresa
1982 Alva Myrdal
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum
1997 Jody Williams
2003 Shirin Ebadi
2004 Wangari Maathai
Female Noble Prize Winners in Literature:
1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof
1926 Grazia Deledda
1928 Sigrid Undset
1938 Pearl Buck
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1966 Nelly Sachs
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1993 Toni Morrison
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2007 Doris Lessing
2009 Herta Müller
840 Nobel Laureates (1901-2010)
Between 1901 and 2010, The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 543 times to 840 people and organizations. Some receive the Nobel Prize more than once, making it a total of 813 individuals and 20 organizations.
Alfred Nobel’s Will
It all started on November 27, 1895. Alfred Nobel – Swedish scientist, inventor, author, entrepreneur and pacifist – signed his last will and testament in Paris. Among its four closely-written pages, less than one referred to the donation which was destined to link his name with the supreme achievements of the modern world in science and literature, and the causes for peace.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring laureates from all over the world for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and for work in peace.
The Prize Award Ceremony
Since 1926, the Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm has taken place at the Stockholm Concert Hall (Stockholms Konserthus). In Oslo, the ceremony was held at the Nobel Institute until 1947 when it was held in the auditorium of Oslo University. In 1990, the event moved to Oslo Town Hall.
At the Award ceremony in Stockholm, the King of Sweden hands each Laureate a diploma and a medal.
Resources about Female Nobel Prize Winners
Official Website of the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize: What is the Nobel Prize, Facts, and Resources
Top 10 Youngest and 10 Oldest Nobel Prize Winners
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