<img loading="" class="lazyload size-article_feature" data-sizes="auto" alt="The 57 women who have won the Nobel Prize | There are 57 women who have been awarded a Nobel Prize out of the more than 900 recipients. One woman — Marie Curie — received two Nobel prizes. To highlight all the winners,
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data from the Nobel Prize website. These women have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of medicine, science, art, and peace-keeping. Just reaching this height of fame and recognition meant facing seemingly insurmountable challenges. Read on to learn about these women’s exciting contributions to society, from helpful advancements in the HIV epidemic to the abolition of landmines to — in the case of 2020 winner Andrea Ghez — pioneering research on the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. (Alexander Heinl/picture alliance via Getty Images)” title=”The 57 women who have won the Nobel Prize | There are 57 women who have been awarded a Nobel Prize out of the more than 900 recipients. One woman — Marie Curie — received two Nobel prizes. To highlight all the winners,
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data from the Nobel Prize website. These women have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of medicine, science, art, and peace-keeping. Just reaching this height of fame and recognition meant facing seemingly insurmountable challenges. Read on to learn about these women’s exciting contributions to society, from helpful advancements in the HIV epidemic to the abolition of landmines to — in the case of 2020 winner Andrea Ghez — pioneering research on the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. (Alexander Heinl/picture alliance via Getty Images)” data-src=”/wp-content/uploads/migration/2021/08/24/2ER3G3RB4VHFXLDHOAO6IRJCTM.png”>