FEMALE NOBEL LAUREATES

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    She recieved the Physics Nobel recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    She recieved the She recieved the Chemistry Nobel for her discovery of radium and polonium
  • Irène Joliot-Curie

    Irène Joliot-Curie
    She recieved the Chemistry Nobel for their synthesis of new radioactive elements
  • Gerty Theresa Cori

    Gerty Theresa Cori
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer

    Maria Goeppert-Mayer
    She recieved the Chemistry Nobel for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

    Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
    She recieved the Chemistry Nobel for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

    Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones
  • Barbara McClintock

    Barbara McClintock
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for her discovery of mobile genetic elements
  • Rita Levi-Montalcin

    Rita Levi-Montalcin
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discoveries of growth factors
  • Gertrude B. Elion

    Gertrude B. Elion
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development
  • Linda B. Buck

    Linda B. Buck
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system
  • Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

    Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discovery of HIV, human immunodeficiency virus
  • Ada E. Yonath

    Ada E. Yonath
    She recieved the Chemistry Nobel for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
  • Carol W. Greider

    Carol W. Greider
    She recieved the Physics Nobel for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
  • Elizabeth Blackburn

    Elizabeth Blackburn
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
  • May-Britt Moser

    May-Britt Moser
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain
  • Tu Youyou

    Tu Youyou
    She recieved the Physiology or Medicine Nobel for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria