Women and Nobel price achievements

 

        

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf      

    

Tawakkol Karman

Leymah Gbowee

In 2011, these 3 women Ellen Johnson Sirleaf(Liberia); Tawakkol Karman; (Yemen) and Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), won the noble peace price for their outstanding performance and achievement in Women's rights, peace movement. Their selfless services to humanity was recognised by the organisers of the prestigious ceremony and awards were granted to them accordingly. Please read on......

Late Wangara Maathai

In 2004 Late Wangara Maathai (Kenya) was awarded with the same "Women's rights and peace movement" showing that women are getting more involved in issues concerning themselves and humanity in general.

There is a long list of women who have be recognised since inception of the ceremony and we want to use this medium to congratulation the "late or living".
Our drive is to create the psyche in young ladies of today success is about individual effort and commitment.

Below are the names of past women who have been honoured at the ceremonies.




LIST OF PAST FEMALE RECIPIENTS

1905	Bertha Von Suttner (Austria)
1931	Jane Addams (USA)
1946	Emily G Balch and John R. Mott (U.S.A)
1976	Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams (both Northern Irelan)
1979	Mother Teressa of Calcutta (India)
1982	Alva Myrdal (Sweden)
1991	Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma)
1992	Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala)
1997	International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams (U.S.)
2003	Shirin Ebadi (Iran)
2004	Wangara Maathai(Kenya)
2011	Jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), and Tawakkul Karman (Yemen) "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR ECONOMIC SCIENCE.

2009	Elinor Ostrom (U.S.)

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR LITERATURE

1909	Selma Lagerof of Sweden
1926	Grazia Deledda of Italy Grazia Deledda
1928	Sigrid undset of Norway
1938	Pearl Buck of the U.S.
1945	Gabriele Mistral of Chile
1966	Nelly Sachs of Sweden
1991	Nadine Gordimer of South Africa
1993	Tony Morrison of the U.S.
1996	Wislawa Szymborska of Poland
2004	Elfriede Jelinek of Austria
2007	Doris Lessing of the United Kingdom
2009	Herta Müller of Germany

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN SCIENCE

• Marie Sklodowska Curie (Physics, 1903 and Chemistry, 1911) Marie Curie is considered the most famous of all women scientists. She was the only woman ever to win two Nobel Prizes. By the time she was 16, Marie had already won a gold medal at the Russian lycée in Poland upon the completion of her secondary education. In 1891, almost penniless, she began her education at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1903 her discovery of radioactivity earned her the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won it for chemistry.

• Irene Curie (Chemistry, 1935) Irene Curie was the daughter of Marie Curie. She furthered her mother's work in radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize for discovering that radioactivity could be artificially produced.
• Gerty Radnitz Cori (Physiology or Medicine, 1947) Gerty Cori was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science. She studied enzymes and hormones, and her work brought researchers closer to understanding diabetes. She won the Nobel Prize for discovering the enzymes that convert glycogen into sugar and back again to glycogen.
• Maria Goeppert Mayer (Physics, 1963) Maria researched the structure of atomic nuclei. During World War II she worked on isotope separation for the atomic bomb project.
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Chemistry, 1964) Dorothy discovered the structures of penicillin and vitamin B₍₁₂₎. She won the Nobel Prize for determining the structure of biochemical compounds essential to combating pernicious anemia.
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (Physiology or Medicine, 1977) Rosayln Yalow won the Nobel Prize for developing radioimmunoassay, a test of body tissues that uses radioactive isotopes to measure the concentrations of hormones, viruses, vitamins, enzymes, and drugs.
• Barbara McClintock(Physiology or Medicine, 1983)studied the chromosomes in corn/maize and her work uncovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria and a possible cure for African sleeping sickness.Barbara McClintock
• Rita Levi-Montalicini (Physiology or Medicine, 1986) Rita is an Italian neuroembryologist known for her co-discovery in 1954 of nerve growth factor, a previously unknown protein that stimulates the growth of nerve cells and plays a role in degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986.
• Gertrude Elion (Physiology or Medicine, 1988) Gertrude Elion is the only woman inventor inducted into The Inventors Hall of Fame. She invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine. Her continued research led to Imuran, a derivative of 6-mercaptopurine that blocks the body's rejection of foreign tissues.
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Physiology or Medicine, 1995) Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard won the Nobel Prize using the fruit fly to help explain birth defects in humans.
• Linda Buck (Physiology or Medicine, 2004) Buck and fellow American Richard Axel discovered how the olfactory system—the sense of smell—works and how people are able to recognize and remember more than 10,000 odors.
• Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Physiology or Medicine, 2008) Barré-Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize with Luc Montagnier (both France) for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider (Physiology or Medicine, 2009) Blackburn and Greider, both of the U.S., along with fellow American Jack W. Szostak, won the Nobel Prize for their "discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase

 
 
 
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