Marie Curie was the primary lady laureate in 1903
It has been a report 12 months for girls within the Nobel prizes season, with Claudia Goldin of america swelling their ranks on Monday by successful the Economics Prize. Ms. Goldin sealed the bumper 12 months for Nobel girls, three days after Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi, jailed for campaigning in opposition to the oppression of girls, received the Peace Prize.
Swedish scientist Anne L’Huillier additionally shared the physics prize and Hungary’s Katalin Kariko the medication prize.
If it’s a report 12 months it’s as a result of the primary two didn’t share the prize with anybody else, that means that for the primary time, nearly half {47 p.c} of the Nobel prizes went to girls, in opposition to simply over two-fifths (42 p.c} in 2009 and 2004, the earlier highest proportion.
In one other first, Ms Goldin is the primary lady to have received the economics prize on her personal.
2023 additionally stands out as a result of three out of 4 girls laureates received prizes which have been dominated by males.
For the reason that first Nobel prizes have been awarded in 1901, girls have received solely 5 out of 225 physics prizes, three out of 93 economics prizes, and 13 out of 227 medication prizes.
In complete, 65 girls have received prizes, representing solely 6.7 p.c of the overall, with the quantity on the rise for the reason that early 2020s.
Marie Curie was the primary lady laureate in 1903 and she or he is to at the present time the one lady to have acquired two Nobel prizes, first for physics in 1903 after which in 1911 in chemistry.
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