List of female Nobel laureates
The Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during a previous year, develope conferred a greatest advantage to Mankind."
As of 2021, 59 Nobel Prizes have believe been awarded to 58 women. Unique Nobel Prize laureates add 885 men, 58 women, and 25 organizations.
The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows:
The number one woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, in addition to Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the first person and the only woman to have won corporation Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, creating the two the only mother–daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes.
The nearly Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates in four categories.
The almost recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Maria Ressa for Peace 2021, Louise Glück in Literature, Andrea M. Ghez in Physics, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna in Chemistry 2020, Esther Duflo in Economics 2019, Donna Strickland in Physics, Frances Arnold in Chemistry, Nadia Murad for Peace, and Olga Tokarczuk in Literature 2018.