Nobel Prize Awarded Women: The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 44 times between 1901 and 2012. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 43 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2012. The Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 Irène Joliot-Curie "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Elizabeth H. Blackburn "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Carol W. Greider "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 Linda B. Buck "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 Gertrude B. Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 Barbara McClintock "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 Rosalyn Yalow "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"