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Marie Curie
The Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" -
Marie Curie
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" -
Irène Joliot-Curie
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements" -
Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" -
Maria Goeppert Mayer
The Nobel Prize in Physics "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" -
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
In 1977, she received the Nobel Prize, together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally.
For her role in devising the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique that by measuring substances in the human body, that made possible the screening the blood of donors for such diseases as hepatitis among other uses. -
Barbara McClintock
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to her in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition.
She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas. -
Rita Levi-Montalcini
She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor, which is a neurotrophic factor and neuropeptide primarily involved in the regulation of growth, maintenance, proliferation, and survival of certain target neurons. -
Gertrude B. Elion
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" -
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development" -
Linda B. Buck
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" -
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus" -
Ada E. Yonath
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" -
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" -
Carol W. Greider
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" -
May-Britt Moser
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" -
Youyou Tu
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"
