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 Physics 1963

Maria Goeppert Mayer

"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903

Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Ada E. Yonath

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935

Irène Joliot-Curie

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911

Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Carol W. Greider

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004

Linda B. Buck

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988

Gertrude B. Elion

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986

Rita Levi-Montalcini

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983

Barbara McClintock

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977

Rosalyn Yalow

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"