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Women Nobel Prize Winners
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Women Nobel Prize Winners in Science
- Marie Sklodowska Curie (Physics, 1903 and Chemistry, 1911) Marie Curie is considered
the most famous of all women scientists. She was the only woman ever to
win two Nobel Prizes. By the time she was 16, Marie had already won a gold
medal at the Russian lycée in Poland upon the completion of her
secondary education. In 1891, almost penniless, she began her education at
the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1903 her discovery of radioactivity earned her
the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won it for chemistry.
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- Irene Curie (Chemistry, 1935) Irene Curie was the
daughter of Marie Curie. She furthered her mother's work in radioactivity
and won the Nobel Prize for discovering that radioactivity could be
artificially produced.
- Gerty Radnitz Cori (Physiology or Medicine, 1947) Gerty Cori was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in
science. She studied enzymes and hormones, and her work brought
researchers closer to understanding diabetes. She won the Nobel Prize for
discovering the enzymes that convert glycogen into sugar and back again to
glycogen.
- Maria Goeppert Mayer (Physics, 1963) Maria researched the structure of atomic nuclei. During World War II
she worked on isotope separation for the atomic bomb project.
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Chemistry, 1964) Dorothy discovered the structures of penicillin and vitamin
B(12). She won the Nobel Prize for determining the structure of
biochemical compounds essential to combating pernicious anemia.
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (Physiology or Medicine, 1977) Rosayln Yalow won the Nobel Prize for developing radioimmunoassay, a
test of body tissues that uses radioactive isotopes to measure the
concentrations of hormones, viruses, vitamins, enzymes, and drugs.
- Barbara McClintock (Physiology or Medicine, 1983) Barbara McClintock studied the chromosomes in corn/maize and her work uncovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria and a possible cure for African sleeping sickness.
- Rita Levi-Montalicini (Physiology or Medicine, 1986) Rita is an Italian neuroembryologist known for her co-discovery in 1954
of nerve growth factor, a previously unknown protein that stimulates the
growth of nerve cells and plays a role in degenerative diseases like
Alzheimer's disease. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine in 1986.
- Gertrude Elion (Physiology or Medicine, 1988) Gertrude Elion is the only woman inventor inducted into The Inventors
Hall of Fame. She invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine.
Her continued research led to Imuran, a derivative of 6-mercaptopurine
that blocks the body's rejection of foreign tissues.
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Physiology or Medicine, 1995) Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard won the Nobel Prize using the fruit
fly to help explain birth defects in humans.
- Linda Buck (Physiology or Medicine, 2004) Buck and fellow American Richard Axel discovered how the olfactory
system—the sense of smell—works and how people are able to
recognize and remember more than 10,000 odors.
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Physiology or Medicine, 2008) Barré-Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize with Luc Montagnier (both France) for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider (Physiology or Medicine, 2009) Blackburn and Greider, both of the U.S., along with fellow American Jack W. Szostak, won the Nobel Prize for their "discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
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