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 ... Female Laureates 1901-2017 Nobel Prize awarded ... "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development". read more
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. read more
Madame Marie Curie famously snagged two Nobel Prizes—for Physics in 1903 with husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel, and again in 1911 for Chemistry after discovering radium and polonium—but many other women have also been awarded the Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine Nobels, too. read more
Gerty was the first American female winner of Nobel Prize for science and the first women to be awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology and Science in 1947. In general, she is the third woman to win Nobel prize in science after mother and daughter Curies. read more