List of female Nobel laureates - wikipedia List of female Nobel laureates All Nobel Prizes won by women ( 1901 - 2018 ) Part of a series on Women in society Society Women 's history ( legal rights ) Woman Animal advocacy Business Female entrepreneur Gender representation on corporate boards of directors Economic development Explorers and travelers Education Feminism Womyn Government Conservatives in the US heads of government heads of state Queen regnant List Health Journalism and the media Law Law enforcement Military Mother Nobel Prize laureates Piracy Positions of power Reproductive rights Venture capital Violence and abuse Voting rights Workforce Science Technology Computing Engineering Geology Medicine dentistry in the United States Organizations Science Science, technology, engineering and mathematics Space Telegraphy Arts Humanities Architecture Arts Art history field Dance Film industry `` Chick flicks '' Films about women Film directors, cinematographers and screenwriters Fine arts Literature Science fiction Philosophy Feminist philosophy Photography Music Jazz Punk rock In Shakespeare 's works Religion Bahá'í Faith Bible Buddhism Christianity Catholicism Mormonism Opus Dei Hinduism Islam Judaism Sikhism Popular culture Comics Portrayal in American comics Film industry Music Fictional pirates Speculative fiction Video games Gender representation in video games Sports Auto racing Baseball Basketball Boxing Cricket Curling Cycling Fastpitch softball Football / soccer Golf Gymnastics Ice hockey Lacrosse Mixed martial arts Netball Paralympic Games Rodeo Roller derby Rowing Surfing Swimming Tennis Track and field Volleyball Winter sport See also : List of sports By country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia Brazil Brunei Burma Cambodia Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Croatia Cuba Cyprus ( North ) Denmark DR Congo Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador East Timor Ethiopia FS Micronesia Fiji Finland France Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Italy India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Ivory Coast Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Libya Madagascar Malaysia Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Mongolia Morocco Nepal New Zealand Niger Nigeria North Korea Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Spain Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Sudan Suriname Sri Lanka Sweden Syria Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Trinidad and Tobago Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Feminism portal As of 2018, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 853 men, 51 women ( Marie Curie won it twice ), and 24 unique organizations. The distribution of female Nobel Laureates is as follows : seventeen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, fourteen have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, twelve have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, five have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, three have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and one, Elinor Ostrom, has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple 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, making the two the only mother - daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates. The most recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Donna Strickland in Physics, Frances Arnold in Chemistry, and Nadia Murad for Peace ( 2018 ). Laureates Year Image Laureate Country Rationale 1903 Marie Skłodowska Curie ( shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel ) Poland and France Physics `` in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel '' 1905 Bertha von Suttner Austria -- Hungary Peace Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau, Bern, Switzerland ; Author of Lay Down Your Arms. 1909 Selma Lagerlöf Sweden Literature `` in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings '' 1911 Marie Skłodowska Curie Poland and France Chemistry `` for her discovery of radium and polonium '' 1926 Grazia Deledda Italy Literature `` 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 '' 1928 Sigrid Undset Norway Literature `` principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages '' 1931 Jane Addams ( shared with Nicholas Murray Butler ) United States Peace Sociologist ; International President, Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom. 1935 Irène Joliot - Curie ( shared with Frédéric Joliot - Curie ) France Chemistry `` for their synthesis of new radioactive elements '' 1938 Pearl S. Buck United States Literature `` for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces '' 1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile Literature `` 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 '' 1946 Emily Greene Balch ( shared with John Raleigh Mott ) United States Peace Formerly Professor of History and Sociology ; Honorary International President, Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom. 1947 Gerty Theresa Cori ( shared with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay ) United States Physiology or Medicine `` for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen '' 1963 Maria Goeppert - Mayer ( shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner ) United States Physics `` for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure '' 1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin United Kingdom Chemistry `` for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances '' 1966 Nelly Sachs ( shared with Samuel Agnon ) Sweden and Germany Literature `` for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel 's destiny with touching strength '' 1976 Betty Williams United Kingdom Peace Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement ( later renamed Community of Peace People ) Mairead Maguire 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ( shared with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally ) United States Physiology or Medicine `` for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones '' 1979 Mother Teresa India and Yugoslavia Peace Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta. 1982 Alva Myrdal ( shared with Alfonso García Robles ) Sweden Peace Former Cabinet Minister ; Diplomat ; Writer. Barbara McClintock United States Physiology or Medicine `` for her discovery of mobile genetic elements '' 1986 Rita Levi - Montalcini ( shared with Stanley Cohen ) Italy and United States Physiology or Medicine `` for their discoveries of growth factors '' Gertrude B. Elion ( shared with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings ) United States Physiology or Medicine `` for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment '' 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa Literature `` who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity '' Aung San Suu Kyi Burma Peace `` for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights '' Rigoberta Menchú Guatemala Peace `` in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno - cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples '' Toni Morrison United States Literature `` who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality '' 1995 Christiane Nüsslein - Volhard ( shared with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus ) Germany Physiology or Medicine `` for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development '' Wisława Szymborska Poland Literature `` for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality '' Jody Williams ( shared with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines ) United States Peace `` for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines '' 2003 Shirin Ebadi Iran Peace `` for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children '' Elfriede Jelinek Austria Literature `` 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 '' Wangari Maathai Kenya Peace `` for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace '' Linda B. Buck ( shared with Richard Axel ) United States Physiology or Medicine `` for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system '' 2007 Doris Lessing United Kingdom Literature `` that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny '' 2008 Françoise Barré - Sinoussi ( shared with Harald zur Hausen and Luc Montagnier ) France Physiology or Medicine `` for their discovery of HIV, human immunodeficiency virus '' 2009 Elizabeth Blackburn ( shared with Jack W. Szostak ) Australia and United States Physiology or Medicine `` for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase '' Carol W. Greider ( shared with Jack W. Szostak ) United States Ada E. Yonath ( shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz ) Israel Chemistry `` for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome '' Herta Müller Germany and Romania Literature `` who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed '' Elinor Ostrom ( shared with Oliver E. Williamson ) United States Economics `` for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons '' 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia Peace `` For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women 's rights to full participation in peace - building work '' Leymah Gbowee Tawakel Karman Yemen 2013 Alice Munro Canada Literature `` master of the contemporary short story '' 2014 May - Britt Moser ( shared with Edvard Moser and John O'Keefe ) Norway Physiology or Medicine `` for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain '' Malala Yousafzai ( shared with Kailash Satyarthi ) Pakistan and India Peace `` for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education ''. 2015 Tu Youyou ( shared with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura ) China Physiology or Medicine `` for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria '' Svetlana Alexievich Belarus Literature `` for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time '' 2018 Donna Strickland ( shared with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin ) Canada Physics `` for their method of generating high - intensity, ultra-short optical pulses '' Frances Arnold ( shared with Gregory Winter and George Smith ) United States Chemistry `` for the directed evolution of enzymes '' Nadia Murad ( shared with Denis Mukwege ) Iraq Peace `` for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict '' References General `` Women Nobel Laureates ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009 - 10 - 13. Specific Jump up ^ `` Nobel Prize facts ''. NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2018 - 10 - 17. ^ Jump up to : `` Nobel Laureates Facts - Women ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 07. 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Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Peace Prize 1946 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Peace Prize 1976 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Peace Prize 1979 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Peace Prize 1982 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 ''. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 16. 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Question: who was the first american woman to win a nobel prize
Answer: Jane Addams