Before we begin, it is imperative to note that in its 117-year history, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to only 49 women . . . as compared to 844 men.

 

While 16 women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 14 have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by 12 who’ve won the award in Physiology or Medicine. One woman has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, five have won the Nobel for Chemistry and three have won in Physics.

 

Here’s a list of all the female Nobel Laureates:

 

Marie Skłodowska Curie for Physics

 

Bertha von Suttner for Peace

 

Selma Lagerlöf for Literature

 

Grazia Deledda for Literature

 

Sigrid Undset for Literature

 

Jane Addams for Peace

 

Irène Joliot-Curie for Chemistry

 

Pearl S. Buck for Literature

 

Gabriela Mistral for Literature

 

Emily Greene Balch for Peace

 

Gerty Theresa Cori for Physiology or Medicine

 

Maria Goeppert-Mayer for Physics

 

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin for Chemistry

 

Nelly Sachs for Literature

 

Betty Williams for Peace

 

Mairead Maguire for Peace

 

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow for Physiology or Medicine

 

Mother Teresa for Peace

 

Alva Myrdal for Peace

 

Barbara McClintock for Physiology or Medicine

 

Rita Levi-Montalcini for Physiology or Medicine

 

Gertrude B. Elion for Physiology or Medicine

 

Nadine Gordimer for Literature

 

Aung San Suu Kyi for Peace

 

Rigoberta Menchú for Peace

 

Toni Morrison for Literature

 

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard for Physiology or Medicine

 

Wisława Szymborska for Literature

 

Jody Williams for Peace

 

Shirin Ebadi for Peace

 

Elfriede Jelinek for Literature

 

Wangari Maathai for Peace

 

Linda B. Buck for Physiology or Medicine

 

Doris Lessing for Literature

 

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi for Physiology or Medicine

 

Elizabeth Blackburn for Physiology or Medicine

 

Carol W. Greider for Physiology or Medicine

 

Ada E. Yonath for Chemistry

 

Herta Müller for Literature

 

Elinor Ostrom for Economics

 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for Peace

 

Leymah Gbowee for Peace

 

Tawakel Karman for Peace

 

Alice Munro for Literature

 

May-Britt Moser for Physiology or Medicine

 

Malala Yousafzai for Peace

 

Tu Youyou for Physiology or Medicine

 

Svetlana Alexievich for Literature

 

Donna Strickland for Physics

 

Frances Arnold for Chemistry

 

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and also the only woman to have won it twice – in 1903 and in 1911.