FEMALE FIRSTS

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Nobel Prizes

• 1903: Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics; she shared the prize with Antoine Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie. First woman to win a Nobel Prize.
• 1905: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Peace.
• 1909: Selma Lagerlöf, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1911: Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. First person (and only woman to date) to win two Nobel Prizes. Only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.
• 1947: Gerty Cori, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; she shared the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Alberto Houssay. Although born in Prague, Gerty Cori is considered the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine. She had become a U.S. citizen in 1928.
• 1983: Barbara McClintock, first woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 2009: Elinor Ostrom, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the first American woman to do so; she shared the prize with Oliver E. Williamson.