Female Nobel Prize laureates
- Female Nobel Prize laureates
Female Nobel Prize laureates accounted for thirty four out of a total of 731 prizes awarded as of 2006. Maria Skłodowska-Curie is not only the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, but also one of only four persons to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to be awarded the prize in two different sciences.
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Only prizes awarded to men and women are counted, and not the prizes awarded to organizations.
List of female laureates
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*1911: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
*1935: Irène Joliot-Curie
*1964: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Nobel Prize in Physics
*1903: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
*1963: Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine
*1947: Gerty Cori
*1977: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
*1983: Barbara McClintock
*1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini
*1988: Gertrude Elion
*1995: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
*2004: Linda B. Buck
*2008: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Nobel Prize in Literature
*1909: Selma Lagerlöf
*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
Nobel Peace Prize
*1905: 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 Menchú
*1997: Jody Williams
*2003: Shirin Ebadi
*2004: Wangari Maathai
External links
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html Women Nobel Laureates]
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