Women who won Nobel prizes
French physicist of Polish origin Mari Curie (1867-1934) is the woman who won the earliest and most Nobel Prize (twice). In 1903
1903, Marie Curie (Photo: fu-berlin.de)
1963, Maria Goeppert-Mayer (Photo: us.edu.p)
CHEMISTRY
1911, Marie Curie (Photo: csufresno.edu)
1935, Irène Joliot-Curie (photo: chemheritage.org)
1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Photo: chemistry.msu.edu)
MEDICAL
1947, Gerty Cori (Photo: nlm.nih.gov)
1977, Rosalyn Yalow (Photo: chemistryexplained.com)
1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini (Photo: amazon.com)
1988, Gertrude B. Elion (Photo: inperson-autographs)
1995, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Photo: dw-world.de)
LITERATURE
1909, Selma Lagerlöf (Photo: blog.de)
1926, Grazia Deledda (Photo: regione.sardegna)
1928, Sigrid Undset
(Photo: havelshouseofhistory.com)
1938, Pearl Buck (Photo: tamu.edu)
1945, Gabriela Mistral (Photos: loc.gov)
1966, Nelly Sachs (Photo: havelshouseofhistory.com)
1991, Nadine Gordimer (Photo: diplomatie.gouv.f)
1993, Toni Morrison (Photo: uns.purdue.edu)
1996, Wislawa Szymborska (Photo: polskainstitutet.se)
PEACE
1905, Bertha von Suttner (Photo: aeiou.at)
1931, Jane Addams (Photo: cas.wcu.edu)
1946, Emily Greene Balch (Photo: britannica.com)
1976, Betty Williams (Photo: provost.syr.edu)
1976, Mairead Corrigan (Photo: scu.edu)
1979, Mother Teresa (Photo: albasoul.com)
1982, Alva Myrdal (Photo: portal.unesco.org)
1991, Aung San Suu Kyi (Photo: pencatala.org)
1992, Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Photo: scu.edu)
1997, Jody Williams (Photo: provost.syr.edu)
2003, Shirin Ebadi (Photo: parstimes.com)
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