27. Nobel Prize-Winning Women

October 14, 2009 By

Dear Followers, If you've been following the news you probably know that a record FIVE women won Nobel Prizes this year (the previous record was three, in 2004). The winners include: Elizabeth Blackburn, 60, (dual U.S.-Austrailian citizenship) and Carol Grieder, 48, (American) who shared the Physiology/Medicine Nobel Prize with Jack Szostak. Greider worked in a research lab in UC Santa Barbara and (Chapter Thirteen: More Than Meets the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ada Yonath, Carol Grieder, Elinor Ostrom, Elizabeth Blackburn, Herta Mueller, Indiana University, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, UC Santa Barbara, Women who have won the Nobel Prize