the eleven women nobel laureates in the sciences 1903-2004 (and five who should/could have been)
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The Eleven
Women Nobel LaureatesIn the Sciences 1903-2004
(and five who should/could have been)
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.”
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.”
Irene Joliot-Curie
1897-1956
Chemistry
1935
“In recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.”
Gerty Radnitz Cori
1896-1957
Physiology or Medicine1947
“For their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.”
Maria Goeppert-
Mayer1896-1957
Physics
1963
“For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structures.”
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1910-1994
Chemistry
1964
“For her determination by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.”
Rosalyn Sussman
Yalow1921-
Physiology or Medicine1977
“For the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones.”
Barbara McClintock1902-1992
Physiology or Medicine1983
“For her discovery of mobile genetic elements.”
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909-
Physiology or Medicine1986
“For their discoveries of growth factors.”
Gertrude B. Elion
1918-1999
Physiology or Medicine1988
“For their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard1942-
Physiology or Medicine1995
“For their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development.”
Linda B. Buck1947-
Physiology or Medicine2004
“For their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organisation of the olfactory system.”
Lisa Meitner1878-1968
Physics
(Fission)
Emmy Noether1882-1935
Mathematics
(Algebra)
Wu Chien-Shiung
1912-1997
Physics
(Parity Violation)
Rosalind Franklin
1920-1958
Physiology or Medicine(DNA)
Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1943-
Astronomy
(Pulsars)