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Female Nobel Prize Laureates
The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind." As of 2022, 61 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 60 women. Unique Nobel Prize laureates include 894 men, 60 women, and 27 organizations. The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows: * eighteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize (16.3% of 110 awarded); * seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (14.28% of 119 awarded); * twelve have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (5.3% of 225 awarded); * eight have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (4.1% of 191 awarded); * four have won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1.8% of 221 awarded); * and two, Elinor Ostrom and Esther Duflo, have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2.17% of 92 awarded). The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Nobel Laureates
Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Etymology a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
