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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]
The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. [6]
Awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Nelsa Curbelo: 1 November 1941 Montevideo, Uruguay — 2004, 2009 [249] 2005: 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe: a collective nomination of 1000 women from over 150 different countries for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. 2005 [250] Zilda Arns Neumann: 25 August 1934 Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brazil 12 January 2010
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty ...
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".
As of October 2023, the Peace Prize has been awarded to 111 individuals and 27 organizations; 19 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than for any other Nobel Prize. Only two recipients have won multiple Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944, and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations ...
Protests against World War I at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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]