Nobel Laureates - Chemistry
Women scientists who have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Marie Curie
A profile of Marie Curie, one of the most important and well-known woman scientists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She received the Nobel Prize for her work in radioactivity.
1911: Marie Curie
Honored for work with radium and polonium.
1935: Iréne Joliot-Curie
With her husband, this daughter of Nobel Prize laureates Pierre and Marie Curie was awarded the prize for their work in synthesizing radioactive elements. She was also mentioned in the 1943 and 1951 Prize presentations.
1964: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
A British chemist honored for her work using x-ray procedures to study natural substances.
2009 - Ada E. Yonath
Ada E. Yonath joined two colleagues in sharing the prize for research into the ribosome.