Modern science is very important for the development of a country. In this era of increasing education in most countries of the world, the tremendous growth of science, which is progressing day by day with new discoveries, is astonishing.
However, the role of women is also important in this scientific progress. The Nobel Prize is awarded annually to those who have performed well in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, economics and literature to benefit humanity. It is one of the highest awards in the world. The whole world watches closely to see who will win this prize every year. Let’s find out how many women have won the Nobel Prize, which gives great honor to the prize winners and the country they belong to.

Let’s look at the women who have won the Nobel Prizes in various fields. Especially, let’s look at the Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry. From 1901 to 2024, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to women a total of 66 times. Marie Curie is the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice. She discovered radioactivity in 1896.

Marie Curie also discovered the chemical element polonium. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. In total, 65 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize 66 times. Between 1901 and 1920, only four women received this prestigious award. However, the number of women receiving this award has been increasing since then.

Between 1921 and 1940, five women received this award. From 1981 to 2000, 11 women, from 2001 to 2020, 28 women, and from 2021 to 2024, 8 women have received this prestigious award. Nobel Prize in Physics: Accordingly, 5 women have received the Nobel Prize in Physics so far. Marie Curie was the first to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1896 for the discovery of radioactivity. Subsequently, the famous American physicist Maria G.

Mayer (Maria Goeppert Mayer) won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for her research on nuclear shell models. She is the second female physicist in the history of science to win the Nobel Prize. Canadian physicist and leading scientist in laser technology Donna Strickland (Donna Strickland). She won the Nobel Prize in 2018 for her discovery of a new laser amplification method called “Chirped Pulse Amplification” (CPA). This helped create high-energy, ultrashort pulse laser beams, which are used in medicine and industry.

She is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Andrea Gage. She was awarded the prize for discovering that an invisible and very heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the center of our galaxy. The 5th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics is Annie L’Huillier. She is a French physicist.

She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023 for her work on the study of the behavior of light on very short time scales, known as attosecond physics. Similarly, 8 women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In this way, American chemist Caroline Ruth Bertossi has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022. She is known for her research on “click chemistry” and bioorthogonal chemistry. These technologies play a key role in medical research, especially in cancer diagnosis and drug development.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on gene editing. The two women were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on gene editing. American chemical engineer Frances H. Arnold won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

She received the award for her research on “Directed Evolution of Enzymes”. Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli biochemist.

She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009. She conducted important studies on the molecular structure and function of ribosomes, the smallest cellular structures. Her research has had a major impact on drug development, especially in understanding how antibiotics work. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009.

She is also the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize.Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British biochemist and winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She used X-ray crystallography to determine the molecular structures of important biochemical substances. Irène Joliot-Curie was a renowned French chemist and winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of artificial radioactivity. Marie Curie was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of polonium.