1903 & 1911: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903: “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911: “for her discovery of radium and polonium”
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1905: Bertha von Suttner
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war”
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1909: Selma Lagerlöf
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings”
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1926: Grazia Deledda
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general”
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1928: Sigrid Undset
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”
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1931: Jane Addams
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind”
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1935: Irène Joliot-Curie
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry:”for their synthesis of new radioactive elements”
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1938: Pearl Buck
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”
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1945: Gabriela Mistral
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”
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1946: Emily Greene Balch
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her lifelong work for the cause of peace”
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1947: Gerty Radnitz-Cori
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen”
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1963: Maria Göppert Mayer
The Nobel Prize in Physics: “for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”
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1964: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”
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1966: Nelly Sachs
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel’s destiny with touching strength”
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1976: Betty Williams
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland”
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1976: Mairead Maguire
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland”
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1977: Rosalyn Yalow
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones”
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1979: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity”
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1982: Alva Myrdal
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones”
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1983: Barbara McClintock
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”
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1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discoveries of growth factors”
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1988: Gertrude Belle Elion
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”
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1991: Nadine Gordimer
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”
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1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”
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1992: Rigoberta Menchú
The Nobel Peace Prize: “in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”
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1993: Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”
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1995: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development”
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1996: Wisława Szymborska
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”
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1997: Jody Williams
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”
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2003: Shirin Ebadi
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her efforts for democracy and human rights, focusing especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children”
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2004: Linda Buck
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”
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2004: Elfriede Jelinek
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power”
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2004: Wangarĩ Maathai
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”
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2007: Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
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2008: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discovery of HIV, human immunodeficiency virus”
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2009: Elizabeth Blackburn
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
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2009: Carolyn Greider
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
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2009: Ada Yonath
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
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2009: Herta Müller
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”
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2009: Elinor Ostrom
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”
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2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”
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2011: Leymah Gbowee
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”
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2011: Tawakkol Karman
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”
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2013: Alice Munro
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “master of the contemporary short story”
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2014: May-Britt Moser
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”
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2014: Malala Yousafzai
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”
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2015: Tú Yōuyōu
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria”
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2015: Svetlana Alexievich
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”
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2018: Donna Strickland
The Nobel Prize in Physics: “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
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2018: Frances Arnold
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: “for the directed evolution of enzymes”
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2018: Olga Tokarczuk
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”
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2018: Nadia Murad
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”
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2019: Esther Duflo
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”
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2020: Andrea Mia Ghez
The Nobel Prize in Physics: “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”
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2020: Emmanuelle Charpentier
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: “for the development of a method for genome editing”
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2020: Jennifer Doudna
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: “for the development of a method for genome editing”
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2020: Louise Glück
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”
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2021: Maria Ressa
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for their effort to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”
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2022: Carolyn Bertozzi
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”
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2022: Annie Ernaux
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”
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2023: Katalin Karikó
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
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2023: Anne L’Huillier
The Nobel Prize in Physics: “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
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2023: Narges Mohammadi
The Nobel Peace Prize: “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”
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2023: Claudia Goldin
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”
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2024: Han Kang
The Nobel Prize in Literature: “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
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