The Eleven Women Nobel Laureates In the Sciences (and five who should/could have been)
Marie Curie (Sklodowska) 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.”
Marie Curie (Sklodowska) 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.”
Irene Joliot- Curie Chemistry 1935 “In recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.”
Gerty Radnitz Cori Physiology or Medicine 1947 “For their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.”
Maria Goeppert- Mayer Physics 1963 “For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structures.”
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Chemistry 1964 “For her determination by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.”
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Physiology or Medicine 1977 “For the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones.”
Barbara McClintock Physiology or Medicine 1983 “For her discovery of mobile genetic elements.”
Rita Levi- Montalcini Physiology or Medicine 1986 “For their discoveries of growth factors.”
Gertrude B. Elion Physiology or Medicine 1988 “For their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”
Christiane Nusslein- Volhard Physiology or Medicine 1995 “For their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development.”
Linda B. Buck Physiology or Medicine 2004 “For their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organisation of the olfactory system.”
Lisa Meitner Physics (Fission)
Emmy Noether Mathematics (Algebra)
Wu Chien-Shiung Physics (Parity Violation)
Rosalind Franklin Physiology or Medicine (DNA)
Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell Astronomy (Pulsars)