The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 41 times between 1901 and 2009. 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 40 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2009.
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Physics
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1903 - Marie Curie
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1963 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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Chemistry
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1911 - Marie Curie
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1935 - Irиne Joliot-Curie
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1964 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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2009 - Ada E. Yonath
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Physiology or Medicine
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1947 - Gerty Cori
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1977 - Rosalyn Yalow
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1983 - Barbara McClintock
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1986 - Rita Levi-Montalcini
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1988 - Gertrude B. Elion
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1995 - Christiane Nьsslein-Volhard
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2004 - Linda B. Buck
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2008 - Franзoise Barrй-Sinoussi
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2009 - Elizabeth H. Blackburn
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2009 - Carol W. Greider
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Literature
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1909 - Selma Lagerlцf
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1926 - Grazia Deledda
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1928 - Sigrid Undset
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1938 - Pearl Buck
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1945 - Gabriela Mistral
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1966 - Nelly Sachs
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1991 - Nadine Gordimer
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1993 - Toni Morrison
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1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
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2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
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2007 - Doris Lessing
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2009 - Herta Mьller
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Peace
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1905 - Bertha von Suttner
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1931 - Jane Addams
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1946 - Emily Greene Balch
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1976 - Betty Williams
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1976 - Mairead Corrigan
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1979 - Mother Teresa
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1982 - Alva Myrdal
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1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
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1992 - Rigoberta Menchъ Tum
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1997 - Jody Williams
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2003 - Shirin Ebadi
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2004 - Wangari Maathai
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Economic Sciences
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2009 - Elinor Ostrom