Women Nobel Prize Winners

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Barbara Eagel

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak. Prize motivation: "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

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Edward Teller

Paul Dirac

Nobel Prize In Physics

PHOTOS: All 16 Nobel-Winning Women Scientists

Women Nobel Prize Winners: 16 Women Who Defied Odds To Win Science's Top Award (PHOTOS) | HuffPost

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Antibiotic Resistance

The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Ada Yonath

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Leymah Gbowee, The Nobel Peace Prize 2011, Born: 1 February 1972, Monrovia, Liberia, Residence at the time of the award: Liberia, Prize motivation: "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

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Noble Prize

Missionaries Of Charity

Woman Power: 16 Female Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners - 16 Women Who've Won the Nobel Peace Prize - Harper's BAZAAR

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Human Rights Lawyer

Pritzker Prize

Human Rights Activists

Badass Women

The Nobel Peace Prize 2003

Shirin Ebadi, The Nobel Peace Prize 2003, Born: 21 June 1947, Hamadan, Iran, Residence at the time of the award: Iran, Prize motivation: "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children."

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Rosalind Franklin

Stem Careers

University Of Sheffield

Stem Science

Fascinating Facts

PHOTOS: All 16 Nobel-Winning Women Scientists

Women Nobel Prize Winners: 16 Women Who Defied Odds To Win Science's Top Award (PHOTOS) | HuffPost

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Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Women Nobel Literature Prize Winners

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Famous Scientist

Steve Jobs

Inspirational People

Who is Marie Curie? Learn about this brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist!

Who is Marie Curie? Learn about this Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who discovered radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes in different fields. She was a genius scientist!

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Colorized picture of Marie Curie - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and in Chemistry [1903 and 1911 respectively]. First person to win two Nobel prizes in two different disciplines. I love this quote. it shows the seriousness and practicality she displayed in her life.