List of female Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, the Svenska academies and the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The award was donated except for the price of Economics by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. The Prize in Economics was donated by the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel. Awarded it is to individuals and organizations for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics.
Statistics
Up to and including 2011 the real Nobel prizes to 784 men, 43 women and 20 organizations have been awarded, the economic price of 69 men and one woman.
The first Nobel laureate physicist and chemist who was Marie Curie, the 1903 award in the category Physics, together with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel received. Marie Curie was the first and only woman to receive two Nobel prizes: in 1911 she was honored with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. 24 years later her daughter Irène Joliot- Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in the same category. This means that Marie Curie and Irène Joliot- Curie so far the only mother-daughter team among the winners.
15 times a woman with a Nobel Prize in the category of peace, twelve times with the Nobel Prize in Literature, ten times in the category of physiology or medicine, four times in the category Chemistry and twice in Physics was awarded. The economic price has so far received a woman. Four Nobel Prizes and the economic price went in 2009 to women, the highest number of awards for women in a single year.