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As of 2023, 65 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 64 women. [1] [3] Unique Nobel Prize laureates include 894 men, 64 women, and 27 organizations. [4] The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows: nineteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize (16.3% of 110 awarded); [5]
Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings. 1995: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: 20 October 1942 Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Nazi Germany [k] — 1995: Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus. 1997: Lida Holmes Mattman: 31 July 1912
The Nobel Prize medal received by the laureates. The Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset) is a set of five different prizes that, according to its benefactor Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will, must be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Nobel laureates. It includes laureates that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Women Nobel laureates"
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was "the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a ...
Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.
The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics was Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the prize in 2018. [7] Only five women have won the prize: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018), Andrea Ghez (2020), and Anne L'Huillier (2023). [8] Before L'Huillier, each woman only ever received a quarter ...