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Nobel Women
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Every fall, the Nobel Foundation announces
the new crop of Nobel Prize winners, rewarding distinguished achievements
in the fields of physics, chemistry, economics, physiology or medicine,
literature and peace. Of the total 789 individual winners since
1901, we wonder: In which field have women received the most Nobel
Prizes?
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Sorry, "Physiology or Medicine"
is not the correct answer.
It took 46 years for a woman to win the
Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Starting in 1947 with the
United States’ Gerty Cori, eight women have been winners —
all of whom are from either the United States or Western Europe.
In 2008, French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
shared the prize for her research on HIV.
All but one of the women who won
the prize in physiology or medicine shared it with either one or
two other individuals. Barbara McClintock, of New York, remains
the only woman to win the prize outright for her discovery of mobile
genetic elements, in 1983.
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