Celebrating Women’s History Month:
In honor of Women’s History Month, I would like to highlight the enormous contributions of the following Ten Women Scientists and Thinkers who won the Nobel Prize:
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: Donna Strickland
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”
“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018: Frances H. Arnold
“for the directed evolution of enzymes”
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015: Tu Youyou
“for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria”
- The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993: Toni Morrison
“who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”
- The Nobel Peace Prize 2004: Wangari Muta Maathai
“for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”
- The Nobel Peace Prize 2014: Malala Yousafzai
“for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
“for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”
- The Nobel Peace Prize 1992: Rigoberta Menchú Tum
“in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”
- The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945: Gabriela Mistral
“for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009: Ada E. Yonath
“for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
Source: ” Nobel Prize awarded women and Women Who Changed the World,” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-prize-awarded-women
