Working out of an old janitor’s closet for a laboratory, the team of Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon Berson went on to do groundbreaking research in techniques for the early detection of diseases, including radioimmunoassay, for which Yalow received the Nobel Prize.
American biochemist and pharmacologist,who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
In 1983, at the age of 81, she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on “mobile genetic elements,” that is, genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome. McClintock was the first woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
Prominent French scientist and politician
Nobel-winning Norwegian neuroscientist
Nobel-winning American political scientist and economist.
Poet and playwright whose life was profoundly shaped by the horrors of World War II and the ascent of the Nazis in Europe, leading her to become a powerful voice representing the sorrows and aspirations of her fellow Jews.
Czech-American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Christiane “Janni” Nüsslein-Volhard is a prominent German developmental biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, making her the only German woman to achieve this distinction in the field of science.
Nobel Prize-winning British chemist renowned for her work in X-ray crystallography.