Women Nobel Prize Laureates
The Nobel Prize and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel have been awarded to women 68 times between 1901 and 2025. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911. This means that 67 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2025.
Source: NobelPrize.org
| Year | Laureate | Country | Category | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mary E. Brunkow | United States | Physiology or Medicine | Shared prize |
| Maria Corina Machado | Venezuela | Peace | ||
| 2024 | Han Kang | South Korea | Literature | |
| 2023 | Claudia Goldin | United States | Economic Sciences | |
| Anne L'Huillier | Sweden | Physics | Shared prize | |
| Katalin Karikó | United States | Physiology or Medicine | Shared prize | |
| Narges Mohammadi | Iran | Peace | ||
| 2022 | Carolyn Bertozzi | United States | Chemistry | Shared prize |
| Annie Ernaux | France | Literature | ||
| 2021 | Maria Ressa | Philippines | Peace | Shared prize |
| 2020 | Andrea Ghez | United States | Physics | Shared prize |
| Emmanuelle Charpentier | Germany | Chemistry | Shared prize | |
| Jennifer A. Doudna | United States | Chemistry | Shared prize | |
| Louise Glück | United States | Literature | ||
| 2019 | Esther Duflo | United States | Economic Sciences | Shared prize |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland | ||
| Donna Strickland | Canada | Physics | Shared Prize | |
| Frances Arnold | United States | Chemistry | ||
| Nadia Murad | Iraq | Peace | ||
| 2015 | Tu Youyou | China | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| Swetlana Alexandrowna | Belarus | Literature | ||
| 2014 | May-Britt Moser | Norway | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| Malala Yousafzai | Pakistan | Peace | ||
| 2013 | Alice Munro | Canada | Literature | |
| 2011 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia | Peace | Shared Prize |
| Leymah Gbowee | ||||
| Tawakkul Karman | Yemen | Shared Prize | ||
| 2009 | Elizabeth Blackburn | Australia & United States | Physiology or Medicine | |
| Carol W. Greider | United States | |||
| Ada E. Yonath | Israel | Chemistry | Shared Prize | |
| Müller, Herta | Germany and Romania | Literature | ||
| Elinor Ostrom | United States | Economics | ||
| 2008 | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | France | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom | Literature | |
| 2004 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya | Peace | |
| LindaBuck | United States | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize | |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran | Peace | |
| Elfriede Jelinek | Austria | Literature | ||
| 1997 | Jody Williams | United States | Peace | Shared Prize |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland | Literature | |
| 1995 | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | Germany | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | United States | Literature | |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala | Peace | |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | Literature | |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma | Peace | ||
| 1988 | Gertrude B. Elion | United States | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| 1986 | Rita Levi-Montalcini | Italy | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| 1983 | Barbara McClintock | United States | Physiology or Medicine | |
| 1982 | Alva Myrdal | Sweden | Peace | Shared Prize |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | India & Yugoslavia | Peace | |
| 1977 | Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | United States | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| 1976 | Betty Williams | United Kingdom | Peace | |
| Mairead Corrigan Gaza | Shared Prize | |||
| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | Sweden and Germany | Literature | Shared Prize |
| 1964 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | United Kingdom | Chemistry | |
| 1963 | Maria Goeppert-Mayer | United States | Physics | Shared Prize |
| 1947 | Gerty Theresa Cori | United States | Physiology or Medicine | Shared Prize |
| 1946 | Emily Greene Balch | United States | Peace | Shared Prize |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile | Literature | |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States | Literature | |
| 1935 | Irène Joliot-Curie | France | Chemistry | Shared Prize |
| 1931 | Jane Addams | United States | Peace | Shared Prize |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway | Literature | |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy | Literature | |
| 1911 | Marie Sklodowska Curie | Poland & France | Chemistry | |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | Literature | |
| 1905 | Bertha von Suttner | Austria–Hungary | Peace | |
| 1903 | Marie Sklodowska Curie | Poland & France | Physics | Shared Prize |
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