The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 43 women since 1901.^[1] 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).

Contents 1 Physics 2 Chemistry 3 Physiology or Medicine 4 Literature 5 Peace 6 Economic Sciences 7 Missing Female Nobel Prize Laureates 8 See also 9 References 10 External Links and videos

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
  

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

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 Karman^[2]

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

References

1. ↑ Nobel Prize Awarded Women
2. ↑ NY Times, Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Three Activist Women, 7 October 2011

External Links and videos