Nobel Prize Awarded Women
The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 44 times between 1901 and 2012. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 43 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2012.
The Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Peace Prize
The Prize in Economic Sciences
Photos of the Nobel Prize Awarded Women
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Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2009, in her lab at the University of California, San Francisco. -
Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011, is embraced by guests at a party at her family home in Monrovia, Liberia, to celebrate her Nobel Peace Prize. -
Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1931, at her desk, 30 October 1912. -
Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1946. -
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008. -
Linda Buck, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2004. -
Pearl Buck, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1938. Photo taken ca 1932. -
Gerty Cori, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1947, and her husband Carl in their laboratory at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, 1947. -
Mairead Corrigan, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1976. -
Tawakkol Karman, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1964. -
Gertrude B. Elion, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1988, in the laboratory. -
Marie Curie, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1903 and in Chemistry 1911, in her laboratory at the Radium Institute in Paris, France, 1921. -
Grazia Deledda, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1926. -
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2003, waves to some 4,000 flag-waving children greeting her outside Oslo City Hall, Norway, before the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony on 10 December 2003. -
Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1991, at the Göteborg Book Fair in Gothenberg, Sweden, 2010. -
Carol W. Greider, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2009, in her laboratory. -
Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004. Photographed in Munich, September 2001. -
Irène Joliot-Curie, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1935, and her husband Frédéric Joliot at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in the Golden Hall of Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1935. -
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in front of her old high school in Monrovia, Liberia. -
Selma Lagerlöf, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1909, in her garden. -
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1986, in her laboratory in the early 1960s. -
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2004. -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1963, being escorted to the Nobel Banquet by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, 10 December 1963. -
Doris Lessing, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2007, being interviewed at her home in London, 14 April 2008. -
Barbara McClintock, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1983, in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor, April 1963. -
Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1945. -
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1993, speaking at "A Tribute to Chinua Achebe - 50 Years Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'", New York City, 26 February 2008. -
Herta Müller, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2009, after delivering her Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy, 7 December 2009. On her right is Professor Peter Englund, the Swedish Academy. -
Alva Myrdal, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1982, with German President Gustav Heinemann in Frankfurt, 27 September 1970. -
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1995. Photo taken 20 June 2007. -
Elinor Ostrom (middle), Laureate in Economic Sciences 2009, analyses data at a workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, November 1977. -
Nelly Sachs, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1966. -
Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1905. -
Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1991. -
Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1996. -
Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1979, during a visit to Bonn, Germany, in 1986. -
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1992, visiting the Nobel Peace Center, September 2006. -
Sigrid Undset, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1928. Photo taken 27 March 1927. -
Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1976. -
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1997, on a tour around the Nobel Peace Center, June 2005. -
Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1977. -
Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009, in conversation with His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2009.
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