{"id":88912,"date":"2024-08-09T06:45:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T06:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/?p=88912"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:39:29","slug":"of-the-65-nobel-prizes-women-have-won-half-were-awarded-in-the-past-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/of-the-65-nobel-prizes-women-have-won-half-were-awarded-in-the-past-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Of the 65 Nobel prizes women have won, half were awarded in past 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since 1901, only 65 prizes have been awarded to women, 6.5% of the 1,000 awarded in total. In 2023, four of the 11 winners were women, making int one of the best years for women in history of the Nobel prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Claudia Goldin won the economics prize, the third woman ever to do so; Iranian Narges Mohammadi won the peace prize; Hungarian Katalin Karik\u00f3 won the physiology or medicine prize; and French scientist Anne L’Huillier was one of three scientists to win the physics prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peace prize has been awarded to 19 women, three of them Africans: Kenyan Wangari Maathai in 2004, and Liberians Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee in 2011. South Africa\u2019s Nadine Gordimer is one of 17 female Nobel literature prize winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open an interactive version of the chart<\/a>: Hover over the points to find out who won the Nobel prize in a year (mobile-friendly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize in 1903, in physics, for her research in radioactivity. She won it again in 1911 for chemistry. Her daughter, Ir\u00e8ne Joliot-Curie, also won the chemistry prize in 1935, for her work in radioactivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of the Nobel prizes that went to women were awarded in the past 20 years. The average age at which women win their Nobel prizes is 58. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Republished from our archives to mark Women’s Day in South Africa. See the original post from 10 November 2023 here<\/a><\/em> or download the chart from the Our World in Charts gallery here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 1901, only 65 prizes have been awarded to women, 6.5% of the 1,000 awarded in total. In 2023, four of the 11 winners were women, making it one of the best years for women in history of the Nobel prize.<\/p>\n

The peace prize has been awarded to 19 women, three of them Africans: Kenyan Wangari Maathai in 2004, and Liberians Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee in 2011. South Africa\u2019s Nadine Gordimer is one of 17 female Nobel literature prize winners.<\/p>\n

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