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All the Women awardees of Nobel Prizes

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Nobel Prize Awarded Women The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 49 times between 1901 and 2016. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 48 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2016. Female Laureates 1901-2015 Nobel Prize awarded women 1901-2015.   The Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgk...

Nobel prizes in English Literature

Nobel Prizes in English literature Rudyard Kipling (1907): UK (born in British India) Rabindranath Tagore (1913): India W. B. Yeats (1923): Ireland George Bernard Shaw (1925): Ireland Sinclair Lewis (1930): US John Galsworthy (1932): UK Eugene O'Neill (1936): US Pearl S. Buck (1938): US T. S. Eliot (1948): UK (born in the US) William Faulkner (1949): US Bertrand Russell (1950): UK Winston Churchill (1953): UK Ernest Hemingway (1954): US John Steinbeck (1962): US Samuel Beckett (1969): Ireland (lived in France much of his life) Patrick White (1973): Australia Saul Bellow (1976): US (born in Canada) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978): US (born in Poland) William Golding (1983): UK Wole Soyinka (1986): Nigeria Joseph Brodsky (1987): US (born in Russia) Nadine Gordimer (1991): South Africa Derek Walcott (1992): St Lucia, West Indies Toni Morrison (1993): US Seamus Heaney (1995): Ireland V. S. Naipaul (2001): UK (born in Trinidad) J. M. Coetzee (2003): South Africa Harold Pinter (2005): UK Do...