Dr Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel-winning physicist
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Nadia Murad
Nobel-winning Iraqi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS
Narges Mohammadi
Nobel-winning Iranian human rights activist and writer
Maria Ressa
Nobel-winning Filipina journalist and human rights activist
Grazia Deledda
The first Italian woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Nadine Gordimer
Nobel-winning South African author and activist
Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Dr Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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.
Gertrude B Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist,who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine