Female Nobel Prize Laureates

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 43 women since 1901.Nobel Prize Awarded Women One woman, Marie Curie, has been awarded the Nobel Prize two times, in 1903 (the Nobel Prize in Physics) and in 1911 (the Nobel Prize in Chemistry).

Physics

• 1903 – Marie Curie
• 1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Chemistry

• 1911 – Marie Curie

• 1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie

• 1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

• 2009 – Ada E. Yonath

Physiology or Medicine

• 1947 – Gerty Cori

• 1977 – Rosalyn Yalow

• 1983 – Barbara McClintock

• 1986 – Rita Levi-Montalcini

• 1988 – Gertrude B. Elion

• 1995 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

• 2004 – Linda B. Buck

• 2008 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

• 2009 – Elizabeth H. Blackburn

• 2009 – Carol W. Greider
• 2014 – May Britt-Moser

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

• 2009 – Herta Müller

• 2013 – Alice Munro

 

Peace

• 1905 – Bertha von Suttner
• 1931 – Jane Addams
• 1946 – Emily Greene Balch
• 1976 – Mairead Corrigan
• 1976 – Betty Williams
• 1979 – Mother Teresa
• 1982 – Alva Myrdal
• 1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi
• 1992 – Rigoberta Menchú Tum
• 1997 – Jody Williams
• 2003 – Shirin Ebadi
• 2004 – Wangari Maathai
• 2011 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol KarmanNY Times, Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Three Activist Women, 7 October 2011
• 2014 – Malala Yousafzai

Economic Sciences

• 2009 – Elinor Ostrom

Missing Female Nobel Prize Laureates

• 1944 – Lise Meitner Chemistry
• 2010 – No Female Prize Laureate

See also

• Women in Science
• Rosalind Franklin
• Female Magsaysay Award Winners

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