1903 | ![Marie Curie.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Marie_Curie.jpg/75px-Marie_Curie.jpg) | 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 nobel.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Bertha_von_Suttner_nobel.jpg/75px-Bertha_von_Suttner_nobel.jpg) | Bertha von Suttner | Austria–Hungary | Peace | Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau, Bern, Switzerland; Author of Lay Down Your Arms. |
1909 | ![Selma Lagerlöf.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f.jpg/75px-Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f.jpg) | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | Literature | "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" |
1911 | ![Marie Curie.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Marie_Curie.jpg/75px-Marie_Curie.jpg) | Marie Skłodowska Curie | Poland and France | Chemistry | "for her discovery of radium and polonium" |
1926 | ![Grazia Deledda 1926.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Grazia_Deledda_1926.jpg/75px-Grazia_Deledda_1926.jpg) | 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 1928.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Sigrid_Undset_1928.jpg/75px-Sigrid_Undset_1928.jpg) | Sigrid Undset | Norway | Literature | "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages" |
1931 | ![Jane Addams profile.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Jane_Addams_profile.jpg/75px-Jane_Addams_profile.jpg) | 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 Harcourt.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie_Harcourt.jpg/75px-Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie_Harcourt.jpg) | Irène Joliot-Curie (shared with Frédéric Joliot-Curie) | France | Chemistry | "for their synthesis of new radioactive elements" |
1938 | ![Pearl Buck 1972.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Pearl_Buck_1972.jpg/75px-Pearl_Buck_1972.jpg) | 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-01.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Gabriela_Mistral-01.jpg/75px-Gabriela_Mistral-01.jpg) | 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 | ![EmilyGreeneBalch.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/EmilyGreeneBalch.jpg/75px-EmilyGreeneBalch.jpg) | 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.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Gerty_Theresa_Cori.jpg/75px-Gerty_Theresa_Cori.jpg) | 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.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Maria_Goeppert-Mayer.jpg/75px-Maria_Goeppert-Mayer.jpg) | Maria Goeppert-Mayer (shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner) | United States | Physics | "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" |
1964 | ![Dorothy Hodgkin Nobel.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Dorothy_Hodgkin_Nobel.jpg/75px-Dorothy_Hodgkin_Nobel.jpg) | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | United Kingdom | Chemistry | "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"[21] |
1966 | ![Nelly Sachs 1966.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Nelly_Sachs_1966.jpg/75px-Nelly_Sachs_1966.jpg) | 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.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Betty_Williams.jpg/75px-Betty_Williams.jpg) | Betty Williams | United Kingdom | Peace | Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People) |
![Mairead Corrigan Gaza.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Mairead_Corrigan_Gaza.jpg/75px-Mairead_Corrigan_Gaza.jpg) | Mairead Corrigan |
1977 | ![Rosalyn Yalow - portrait.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Rosalyn_Yalow_-_portrait.jpg/75px-Rosalyn_Yalow_-_portrait.jpg) | Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (shared with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" |
1979 | ![MotherTeresa 090.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/MotherTeresa_090.jpg/75px-MotherTeresa_090.jpg) | Mother Teresa | India and Yugoslavia | Peace | Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta. |
1982 | ![ARB-Alva-Myrdal.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ARB-Alva-Myrdal.jpg/75px-ARB-Alva-Myrdal.jpg) | Alva Myrdal (shared with Alfonso García Robles) | Sweden | Peace | Former Cabinet Minister; Diplomat; Writer. |
1983 | ![Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Barbara_McClintock_%281902-1992%29_shown_in_her_laboratory_in_1947.jpg/75px-Barbara_McClintock_%281902-1992%29_shown_in_her_laboratory_in_1947.jpg) | Barbara McClintock | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" |
1986 | ![Rita Levi Montalcini.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Rita_Levi_Montalcini.jpg/75px-Rita_Levi_Montalcini.jpg) | Rita Levi-Montalcini (shared with Stanley Cohen) | Italy and United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of growth factors" |
1988 | ![Nci-vol-8236-300 Gertrude Elion.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Nci-vol-8236-300_Gertrude_Elion.jpg/75px-Nci-vol-8236-300_Gertrude_Elion.jpg) | 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 01.JPG](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Nadine_Gordimer_01.JPG/75px-Nadine_Gordimer_01.JPG) | 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" |
![Sakharov Prize award to Aung San Suu Kyi Strasbourg October 22 2013-18.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Remise_du_Prix_Sakharov_%C3%A0_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi_Strasbourg_22_octobre_2013-18.jpg/75px-Remise_du_Prix_Sakharov_%C3%A0_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi_Strasbourg_22_octobre_2013-18.jpg) | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma | Peace | "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" |
1992 | ![Rigoberta Menchu 2009 cropped.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Rigoberta_Menchu_2009_cropped.jpg/75px-Rigoberta_Menchu_2009_cropped.jpg) | 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" |
1993 | ![Toni Morrison 2008-2.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Toni_Morrison_2008-2.jpg/75px-Toni_Morrison_2008-2.jpg) | 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 mg 4383.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Christiane_N%C3%BCsslein-Volhard_mg_4383.jpg/75px-Christiane_N%C3%BCsslein-Volhard_mg_4383.jpg) | 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" |
1996 | ![Szymborska in 2011 (1) .jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Szymborska_2011_%281%29.jpg/75px-Szymborska_2011_%281%29.jpg) | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland | Literature | "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" |
1997 | ![JodyWilliamsMay2010.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/JodyWilliamsMay2010.jpg/75px-JodyWilliamsMay2010.jpg) | 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-Amsterdam-2011-Photo-by-Persian-Dutch-Network.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Shirin-Ebadi-Amsterdam-2011-Photo-by-Persian-Dutch-Network.jpg/75px-Shirin-Ebadi-Amsterdam-2011-Photo-by-Persian-Dutch-Network.jpg) | 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" |
2004 | ![Elfriede jelinek 2004 small.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Elfriede_jelinek_2004_small.jpg/75px-Elfriede_jelinek_2004_small.jpg) | 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 in Nairobi.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wangari_Maathai_in_Nairobi.jpg/75px-Wangari_Maathai_in_Nairobi.jpg) | Wangari Maathai | Kenya | Peace | "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" |
![LindaBuck cropped 1.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/LindaBuck_cropped_1.jpg/75px-LindaBuck_cropped_1.jpg) | 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 20060312 (square).jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Doris_lessing_20060312_%28square%29.jpg/75px-Doris_lessing_20060312_%28square%29.jpg) | 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-press conference Dec 06th, 2008-1.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi-press_conference_Dec_06th%2C_2008-1.jpg/75px-Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi-press_conference_Dec_06th%2C_2008-1.jpg) | 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 CHF Heritage Day 2012 Rush 001.JPG](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Elizabeth_Blackburn_CHF_Heritage_Day_2012_Rush_001.JPG/75px-Elizabeth_Blackburn_CHF_Heritage_Day_2012_Rush_001.JPG) | 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" |
![GREIDER Carol 2014 - Less vignetting.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/GREIDER_Carol_2014_-_Less_vignetting.jpg/75px-GREIDER_Carol_2014_-_Less_vignetting.jpg) | Carol W. Greider (shared with Jack W. Szostak) | United States |
![Ada E. Yonath.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ada_E._Yonath.jpg/75px-Ada_E._Yonath.jpg) | Ada E. Yonath (shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz) | Israel | Chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
![Müller, Herta.IMG 9379 cropped.JPG](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/M%C3%BCller%2C_Herta.IMG_9379_cropped.JPG/75px-M%C3%BCller%2C_Herta.IMG_9379_cropped.JPG) | Herta Müller | Germany and Romania | Literature | "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" |
![Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-30.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Nobel_Prize_2009-Press_Conference_KVA-30.jpg/75px-Nobel_Prize_2009-Press_Conference_KVA-30.jpg) | Elinor Ostrom (shared with Oliver E. Williamson) | United States | Economics | "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" |
2011 | ![Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, April 2010.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf%2C_April_2010.jpg/75px-Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf%2C_April_2010.jpg) | 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-at-emu-press-conference.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Leymah-gbowee-at-emu-press-conference.jpg/75px-Leymah-gbowee-at-emu-press-conference.jpg) | Leymah Gbowee |
![Tawakkul Karman (Munich Security Conference 2012).jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Tawakkul_Karman_%28Munich_Security_Conference_2012%29.jpg/75px-Tawakkul_Karman_%28Munich_Security_Conference_2012%29.jpg) | Tawakel Karman | Yemen |
2013 | ![Alice Munro.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Alice_Munro.jpg/75px-Alice_Munro.jpg) | Alice Munro | Canada | Literature | "master of the contemporary short story" |
2014 | ![May-Britt Moser 2014.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/May-Britt_Moser_2014.jpg/75px-May-Britt_Moser_2014.jpg) | 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 at Girl Summit 2014.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Malala_Yousafzai_at_Girl_Summit_2014.jpg/75px-Malala_Yousafzai_at_Girl_Summit_2014.jpg) | Malala Yousafzai (shared with Kailash Satyarthi) | Pakistan | Peace | "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". |
2015 | ![Tu Youyou 5012-1-2015.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Tu_Youyou_5012-1-2015.jpg/75px-Tu_Youyou_5012-1-2015.jpg) | Tu Youyou (shared with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura) | China | Physiology or Medicine | "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria" |
![Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Swetlana_Alexandrowna_Alexijewitsch.jpg/75px-Swetlana_Alexandrowna_Alexijewitsch.jpg) | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus | Literature | "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" |