The 52 Women Who Have Won Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize awarded women 1901-2018

The Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Donna Strickland
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”
“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
Maria Goeppert Mayer
“for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
“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
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
Frances H. Arnold
“for the directed evolution of enzymes”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Ada E. Yonath
“for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
Irène Joliot-Curie
“in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
“in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
Tu Youyou
“for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
May-Britt Moser
“for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Carol W. Greider
“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
“for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004
Linda B. Buck
“for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
“for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988
Gertrude B. Elion
“for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986
Rita Levi-Montalcini
“for their discoveries of growth factors”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983
Barbara McClintock
“for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
Rosalyn Yalow
“for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947
Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz
“for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen”

The Nobel Prize in Literature

2018
Olga Tokarczuk

2015
Svetlana Alexievich

2013
Alice Munro

2009
Herta Müller

2007
Doris Lessing

2004
Elfriede Jelinek

1996
Wislawa Szymborska

1993
Toni Morrison

1991
Nadine Gordimer

1966
Nelly Sachs

1945
Gabriela Mistral

1938
Pearl Buck

1928
Sigrid Undset

1926
Grazia Deledda

1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

The Nobel Peace Prize

2018
Nadia Murad

2014
Malala Yousafzai

2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

2011
Leymah Gbowee

2011
Tawakkol Karman

2004
Wangari Muta Maathai

2003
Shirin Ebadi

1997
Jody Williams

1992
Rigoberta Menchú Tum

1991
Aung San Suu Kyi

1982
Alva Myrdal

1979
Mother Teresa

1976
Betty Williams

1976
Mairead Corrigan

1946
Emily Greene Balch

1931
Jane Addams

1905
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009
Elinor Ostrom
“for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
Esther Duflo
“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”