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Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. [88] Awards and honours that she received include: Nobel Prize in Physics (1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) [23]
Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820–1921), American physician, first female physician in the state of Louisiana; Rebecca Cole (1846–1922) American physician, by 1867 she was the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Skłodowska-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Curie is also the first person and the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
[312] [313] Over the course of her scientific career, she became the first female Fellow elected to the Nigerian Academy of Science, and the first female dean of science in Nigeria. [314] 1981: Vera Rubin was the second female astronomer elected to the National Academy of Science.
Ada Yonath, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome. Latin America. Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal, the first scientist and nutritionist woman from Latin America to lead the Latin America Society of Nutrition.
1848: Maria Mitchell became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she had discovered a new comet the year before. [1]1853: Jane Colden was the only female biologist mentioned by Carl Linnaeus in his masterwork Species Plantarum.
1971 Mina Rees became the first woman president of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) founded in 1848. [129] 1972: Willie Hobbs Moore became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics. 1972: Sandra Faber became the first woman to join the Lick Observatory staff at the University of California, Santa ...