Women Nobel Prize Laureates
In 1903, two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman for the first time. She was Marie Curie, and women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since in very small numbers compared to their male colleagues.
- Here is a list of past female Nobel Laureates.Economics2009 Elinor OstromPhysics:1903 Marie Sklodowska Curie1963 Maria Goeppert MayerChemistry1911 Marie Sklodowska Curie1935 Irene Joliot-Curie1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin2009 Ada E. YonathPhysiology & Medicine1947 Gerty Radnitz Cori1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow1983 Barbara McClintock1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini1988 Gertrude Elion1995 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard2004 Linda B. Buck2008 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi2009 Elizabeth H. Blackburn2009 Carol W. GreiderPeace1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner1931 Jane Addams1946 Emily Greene Balch1976 Betty Williams1976 Mairead Corrigan1979 Mother Teresa1982 Alva Myrdal1991 Aung San Suu Kyi1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum1997 Jody Williams2003 Shirin Ebadi2004 Wangari MaathaiLiterature1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof1926 Grazia Deledda1928 Sigrid Undset1938 Pearl Buck1945 Gabriela Mistral1966 Nelly Sachs1991 Nadine Gordimer1993 Toni Morrison1996 Wislawa Szymborska2004 Elfriede Jelinek2007 Doris Lessing2009 Herta Müller
The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 - Press ReleaseThe Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.
