Nobel Prize Awarded Women

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (since 1901):

• 2004: Linda B Buck - USA (shares the prize with Richard Axel - USA)
• 1995: Christiane Nüsslein - Germany (shares the prize with Edward B. Lewis - USA & Eric F. Wieschaus - USA)
• 1988: Gertrude B Elion - USA (shares the prize with Sir James W Black -GB & George H Hitchings - USA)
• 1986: Rita Levi - Italy (shares the prize with Stanley Cohen - USA)
• 1983: Barbara McClintock - USA
• 1977: Rosalyn Yalow - USA (shares the prize with Roger Guillemin - USA & Andrew V. Schally -USA)
• 1947: Gerty Theresa Cori - USA (shares the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori - USA & Bernardo Alberto Houssay - Argentina)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (since 1901):

• 1964: Dorothy Crowfoot - GB
• 1935: Irène Joliot - France (shares the prize with her husband Frédéric Joliot - France)
• 1911: Mari Curie - France

The Nobel Prize in Physics (since 1901):

• 1963: Maria Goeppert - USA (shares the prize with Eugene Paul Wigner - USA & J Hans D Jensen - Germany)
• 1903: Marie Curie - France (shares the prize with her husband Pierre Curie - France & Antoine Henrik Becquerel - France)

The Nobel Peace Prize (since 1901):

• 2003: Shirin Ebadi - Iran
• 1992: Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Guatemala
• 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
• 1982: Alva Myrdal - Sweden (shares the prize with Alfonso García Robles - Mexico)
• 1979: Moder Teresa - Indien
• 1976: Betty Williams och Mairead Corrigan - GB
• 1946: Emily Greene Balch - USA (shares the prize with John Raleigh Mott - USA)
• 1905: The Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner - Austria

The Nobel Prize in Literature (since 1901):

• 1996: Wislawa Szymborska - Poland
• 1993: Toni Morrison - USA
• 1991: Nadine Gordimer - South Africa
• 1966: Nelly Sachs - Sweden
• 1945: Gabriela Mistral - Chile
• 1938: Pearl Buck - USA
• 1928: Sigrid Undset - Norway
• 1945: Grazia Deledda - Italy
• 1909: Selma Lagerlöf - Sweden

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (since 1968):

• No woman has till this day recieved the economy prize.