The Eleven Women Nobel Laureates

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The ElevenWomen Nobel Laureates

• In the Sciences 1903-2004
• (and five who should/could have been)

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Marie Curie (Sklodowska)1867-1934

• Physics
• 1903

In recognition of the extra-ordinary services
they have rendered by their joint researches on
the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor
Henri Becquerel.
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Marie Curie (Sklodowska)1867-1934

• Chemistry
• 1911

In recognition of her services to the
advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the
elements radium and plutonium, by the isolation
of radium, and the study of the nature and
compounds of this remarkable element.
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Irene Joliot-Curie1897-1956

• Chemistry
• 1935

In recognition of their synthesis of new
radioactive elements.
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Gerty Radnitz Cori1896-1957

• Physiology or Medicine
• 1947

For their discovery of the course of the
catalytic conversion of glycogen.
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer1896-1957

• Physics
• 1963

For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell
structures.
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin1910-1994

• Chemistry
• 1964

For her determination by X-ray techniques of the
structures of important biochemical substances.
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow1921-

• Physiology or Medicine
• 1977

For the development of radioimmunoassays of
peptide hormones.
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Barbara McClintock1902-1992

• Physiology or Medicine
• 1983

For her discovery of mobile genetic elements.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini1909-

• Physiology or Medicine
• 1986

For their discoveries of growth factors.
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Gertrude B. Elion1918-1999

• Physiology or Medicine
• 1988

For their discoveries of important principles
for drug treatment.
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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard1942-

• Physiology or Medicine
• 1995

For their discoveries concerning the genetic
control of early embryonic development.
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Linda B. Buck1947-

• Physiology or Medicine
• 2004

For their discoveries of odorant receptors and
the organisation of the olfactory system.
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Lisa Meitner1878-1968

• Physics
• (Fission)

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Emmy Noether1882-1935

• Mathematics
• (Algebra)

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• Wu Chien-Shiung
• 1912-1997

Physics (Parity Violation)
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Rosalind Franklin1920-1958

• Physiology or Medicine
• (DNA)

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Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell1943-

• Astronomy
• (Pulsars)