Only about 3% of the scientists to win a Nobel Prize have been women. Many feel that there’s been plenty of important science carried out by females that #shouldawonaNobel.
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Female Chemists Overlooked for a Nobel
#ShouldaWonANobel
Before we delve into Nobel-worthy science itself, how many women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry out of 175 winners?
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Melinda Duer
Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Isabella Karle
Many think this female chemist #shouldawonaNobel, along with her husband, for developing crystal structure determination methods.
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JoAnne Stubbe
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Elena Galpern
Harriet Kroto
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Darleane Hoffman
Marie Curie
Lise Meitner
Shirley Ann Jackson
This female scientist fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and, many say, #shouldawonaNobel for her contribution to the discovery of “fission.”
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Jacqueline Barton
Marietta Blau
This female physicist was nominated for a Nobel five times. According to some, she #shouldawonaNobel, along with Cecil Frank Powell, for developing the “photographic method of studying nuclear processes.”
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Agnes Pockels
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Geraldine Richmond
Stephanie Kwolek
Many think this German female chemist #shouldawonaNobel for developing a technique to measure soap-film surface tension, later upgraded by Irving Langmuir, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Ida Noddack
Many agree that this woman #shouldawonaNobel for experimental work that helped determine DNA’s helical structure.
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Gerty Cori
Marie Maynard Daly
Rachel Carson
Although she wasn’t a chemist, this female wrote the book “Silent Spring,” which led to the banning and restriction of all six pesticides it discussed. Some think she #shouldawonaNobel for her impact on society and the modern environmental movement.
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Irene Joliot-Curie
Marguerite Perey
This French female chemist #shouldawonaNobel, but in 1952, the Nobel Committee decided that her francium studies “undoubtedly are worth being recognized” but fell short of deserving a Nobel.
Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale
Marie-Anne Lavoisier
Gertrude Elion
This female crystallographer #shouldawonaNobel, according to some, for generating the first experimental proof of benzene’s planarity.
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