Women Nobel Laureates

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 34 women since 1901. One woman, Marie Curie, has been awarded the Nobel Prize two times, in 1903 (the Nobel Prize in Physics) and in 1911 (the Nobel Prize in Chemistry).

• Physics

• 1903 -

  Marie Curie

• 1963 -

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

• Chemistry

• 1911 -

  Marie Curie

• 1935 -

  Irène Joliot-Curie

• 1964 -

  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

• Physiology or Medicine

• 1947 -

  Gerty Cori

• 1977 -

  Rosalyn Yalow

• 1983 -

  Barbara McClintock

• 1986 -

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

• 1988 -

  Gertrude B. Elion

• 1995 -

  Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

• 2004 -

  Linda B. Buck

• Literature

• 1909 -

  Selma Lagerlöf

• 1926 -

  Grazia Deledda

• 1928 -

  Sigrid Undset

• 1938 -

  Pearl Buck

• 1945 -

  Gabriela Mistral

• 1966 -

  Nelly Sachs

• 1991 -

  Nadine Gordimer

• 1993 -

  Toni Morrison

• 1996 -

  Wislawa Szymborska

• 2004 -

  Elfriede Jelinek

• 2007 -

  Doris Lessing

• Peace

• 1905 -

  Bertha von Suttner

• 1931 -

  Jane Addams

• 1946 -

  Emily Greene Balch

• 1976 -

  Betty Williams

• 1976 -

  Mairead Corrigan

• 1979 -

  Mother Teresa

• 1982 -

  Alva Myrdal

• 1991 -

  Aung San Suu Kyi

• 1992 -

  Rigoberta Menchú Tum

• 1997 -

  Jody Williams

• 2003 -

  Shirin Ebadi

• 2004 -

  Wangari Maathai

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