Women Noble Prizes in
Chemistry
Ø Frances H Arnold:
Awarded the Nobel Prize jointly
with
George Smith, Greg Winter
in Chemistry for
producing new enzymes and antibodies, including
Frances H Arnold.
Ø Marie
Curie (1911): Awarded the Nobel Prize “in recognition of
her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements
radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and
compounds of this remarkable element.”
Ø Irène
Joliot-Curie (1935): Awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with her
husband, Frédéric Joliot, “in recognition of their synthesis of new
radioactive elements.”
Ø Dorothy
Crowfoot Hodgkin (1964): Awarded the Nobel
Prize ”for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of
important biochemical substances.”
Ø Ada
E. Yonath (2009): Jointly with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
and Thomas A. Steitz “for studies of the structure and function of the
ribosome.”
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