Women and the Nobel Prize – record of 5 female winners in year 2009
Herta Mueller, Nobel Lit
This year is significant as far as the number of female Nobel Prize laureates was concerned.
5 women were honored by the Nobel committees – which is considered a record number…
As we learn from Associated Press who has learned from Nobel Institute, only 40 women have won the prestigious prizes in all the Nobel years. The 2009 female winners are:
_ Elinor Ostrom, 76, USA, the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, (together with Oliver Williamson for their work in economic governance)
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn, USA-Australian, 60, and Carol W. Greider from USA, 48, (and Jack W. Szostak) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
_ Ada Yonath, 70, of Israel, who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz
- Herta Mueller, 56, a Romanian-born German writer who won the literature prize for her critical depiction of life behind the Iron Curtain.
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And I say AMEN!!! I am so proud to be female! in the 21st century!!!!!