Female Nobel Laureates
Throughout history there are very few women involved in science whose names and relevance have come down to our days. However, some have contributed significantly to the development of science.
So, why they are not known? Some went into hiding to avoid being stigmatized by society and others saw how their works were attributed to their companions; for scientific society, simply, they did not exist.
From these pages we want to devote a tribute to them and recognize their merits publicly.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, theSwedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Literature,Peace, Physiology or Medicine and Economics
As of 2015, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 822 men, 48 women, and 26 organizations. Sixteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, fourteen have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, twelve have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, four have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, two have won the Nobel Prize in Physics and one, Elinor Ostrom, has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize wasMarie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes.
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