id year_of_award approximate_age_at_time_of_award name prize date_of_birth country_of_birth affiliation_at_time_of_award residence_at_time_of_award awarded_with award_for 1 1903 36 Marie Curie Physics 1867 Poland Lived and worked in Paris Pierre Curie in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel 2 1905 62 Bertha von Suttner Peace Prize 1843 Czech Republic Austria for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war. 3 1909 51 Selma Lagerlof Literature 1858 Sweden Sweden in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings 4 1911 44 Marie Curie Chemistry 1867 Poland Sorbonne University, France in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element 5 1926 55 Grazia Deledda Literature 1871 Italy Italy for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general 6 1928 46 Sigrid Undset Literature 1882 Norway Norway principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages 7 1931 71 Jane Addams Peace Prize 1860 United States United States Nicholas Murray Butler for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind. 8 1935 38 Irène Joliot-Curie Chemistry 1897 France Institut du Radium, France Frédéric Joliot in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements 9 1938 46 Pearl Buck Literature 1892 United States United States for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces 10 1945 56 Gabriela Mistral Literature 1889 Chile Chile for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world 11 1946 79 Emily Green Balch Peace Prize 1867 United States United States John R Mott for her lifelong work for the cause of peace 12 1947 51 Gerty Theresa Cori Physiology or Medicine 1896 Czech Republic Washington University, St Louis, United States Carl Ferdinand Cori for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen 13 1963 57 Maria Goeppert Mayer Physics 1906 Poland University of California, San Diego, United States J Hans D Jensen for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure 14 1964 54 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Chemistry 1910 Egypt / UK Oxford University, United Kingdom for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances 15 1966 75 Nelly Sachs Literature 1891 Germany Sweden for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel’s destiny with touching strength 16 1976 32 Mairead Corrigan Peace Prize 1944 Northern Ireland United Kingdom Betty Williams for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland 17 1976 33 Betty Williams Peace Prize 1943 Northern Ireland United Kingdom Mairead Corrigan for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland 18 1977 56 Rosalyn Yalow Physiology or Medicine 1921 United States Veterans Administration Hospital, New York, United States for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones 19 1979 69 Mother Teresa Peace Prize 1910 North Macedonia India for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity 20 1982 80 Alva Myrdal Peace Prize 1902 Sweden Sweden Alfonso Garcia Robles for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones 21 1983 81 Barbara McClintock Physiology or Medicine 1902 United States Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States for her discovery of mobile genetic elements 22 1986 77 Rita Levi-Montalcini Physiology or Medicine 1909 Italy Institute of Cell Biology of the CNR, Italy Stanley Cohen for their discoveries of growth factors 23 1988 70 Gertrude B Elion Physiology or Medicine 1918 United States Wellcome Research Laboratories, United States James W Black & George H Hitchings for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment 24 1991 46 Aung San Suu Kyi Peace Prize 1945 Myanmar Myanmar for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights 25 1991 68 Nadine Gordimer Literature 1923 South Africa South Africa who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity 26 1992 33 Rigoberta Menchú Tumu Peace Prize 1959 Guatemala Guatemala in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for therights of indigenous peoples 27 1993 62 Toni Morrison Literature 1931 United States United States who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality 28 1995 53 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Physiology or Medicine 1942 Germany Max Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Germany Edward B Lewis & Eric F Wieschaus for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development 29 1996 73 Wislawa Szymborska Literature 1923 Poland Poland for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality 30 1997 47 Jody Williams Peace Prize 1950 United States United States International Campaign to Ban Landmines for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines 31 2003 56 Shirin Ebadi Peace Prize 1947 Iran Iran for her efforts for democracy and human rights, focusing especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children 32 2004 57 Linda B Buck Physiology or Medicine 1947 United States Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, United States Richard Axel for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system 33 2004 58 Elfriede Jelinek Literature 1946 Austria Austria for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power 34 2004 64 Wangari Muta Maathai Peace Prize 1940 Kenya Kenya "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace 35 2007 88 Doris Lessing Literature 1919 Iran United Kingdom that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny 36 2008 61 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Physiology or Medicine 1947 France Institut Pasteur, France Luc Montagnier or their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus 37 2009 48 Carol W Greider Physiology or Medicine 1961 United States Johns Hopkins University, United States Elizabeth H Blackburn & Jack W Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase 38 2009 61 Elizabeth H Blackburn Physiology or Medicine 1948 Australia University of Californiam San Francisco Carol W Greider & Jack W Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase 39 2009 56 Herta Muller Literature 1953 Romania Germany who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed 40 2009 70 Ada E Yonath Chemistry 1939 Israel Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Venkatraman Ramakrishnana & Thomas A Steitz for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome 41 2009 76 Elinor Ostrom Economics 1933 United States Indiana University, Arizone State University, United States Oliver E Williamson for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons 42 2011 32 Tawakkol Karman Peace Prize 1979 Yemen Yemen Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work 43 2011 39 Leymah Gbowee Peace Prize 1972 Liberia Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Tawakkol Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work 44 2011 73 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Peace Prize 1938 Liberia Liberia Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work 45 2013 82 Alice Munro Literature 1931 Canada Canada master of the contemporary short story 46 2014 17 Malala Yousafzai Peace Prize 1997 Pakistan United Kingdom Kailash Satyarthi for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education 47 2014 51 May-Britt Moser Physiology or Medicine 1963 Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway John O'Keefe, Edvard I Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain 48 2015 67 Svetlana Alexievich Literature 1948 Russia Belarus for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time 49 2015 85 Tu Youyou Physiology or Medicine 1930 China China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria 50 2018 25 Nadia Murad Peace Prize 1993 Iraq Unknown Denis Mukwege for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict 51 2018 56 Olga Tokarczuk Literature 1962 Poland Poland for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life 52 2018 59 Donna Strickland Physics 1959 Canada University of Waterloo, Canada Gérard Mourou for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics 53 2018 62 Frances H Arnold Chemistry 1956 United States California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States for the directed evolution of enzymes 54 2019 47 Esther Duflo Economics 1972 France Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty 55 2020 52 Emmanuelle Charpentier Chemistry 1968 France Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Germany with Jennifer Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing 56 2020 56 Jennifer A Doudna Chemistry 1964 United States University of California, Berkeley, United States with Emmanuelle Charpentier for the development of a method for genome editing 57 2020 55 Andrea Ghez Physics 1965 United States University of California, Los Angeles, United States Reinhard Genzel for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy 58 2020 77 Louise Gluck Literature 1943 United States United States for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal 59 2021 58 Maria Ressa Peace Prize 1963 Philippines Philippines Dmitry Murative for their effort to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace 92 men have won the peace prize 60 2022 56 Carolyn R Bertozzi Chemistry 1966 United States Stanford University, United States Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry 61 2022 82 Annie Ernaux Literature 1940 France France for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory 62 2023 51 Narges Mohammadi Peace Prize 1972 Iran Iran Fight agains the oppression of women in Iran and to promote human rights and freedom for all 63 2023 65 Anne L'Huillier Physics 1958 France Lund University, Sweden Pierre Agostini & Ferenc Krausz for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter 64 2023 68 Katalin Karikó Physiology or Medicine 1955 Hungary Szeged University, Hungary & University of Pennsylvania, United States Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 65 2023 77 Claudia Goldin Economics 1946 United States Harvard University, United States or having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes