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)