May-Britt Moser
Nobel-winning Norwegian neuroscientist
Tag Archives: Nobel Prize Winner
Continue reading
Lin Ostrom
Nobel-winning American political scientist and economist.
Nelly Sachs
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.
Dr Gerty Cori
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.
Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Nobel Prize-winning British chemist renowned for her work in X-ray crystallography.
Dr Elizabeth Blackburn
In 1984, Blackburn and Carol W. Greider jointly discovered telomerase, the enzyme responsible for telomere replenishment. This groundbreaking achievement led to their winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009, with Blackburn making history as the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.
Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmental activist
Selma Lagerlöf
Eminent Swedish novelist and leader of the modern romantic reaction in Sweden.