Here are all the women who won Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize, joining the group of total seven women who had earned a Nobel in Chemistry, ever. Here are the seven female laureates.

Jennifer Doudna of the US. The CRISPR/Cas9 tool has already contributed to significant gains in crop resilience, altering their genetic code to better withstand drought and pests. Credit: AFP Photo

In 1911, Marie Curie was awarded Nobel Prize, her second and the only woman to bag two Nobel Prizes,, for the discovery of elements radium and polonium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Irène Joliot-Curie, also the daughter of Marie Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935 for her discovery of new radioactive elements. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of the UK in 1964 was awarded Nobel Prize for her work on determining biomolecules using X-ray techniques. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Ada Yonath, the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize, received the recognition in 2009 for her pioneering work on structure and function of ribosome, a minute particle found in all living cells. Credit: Nobel Foundation Archive Photo

Frances H. Arnold became the fifth woman to be awarded with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2018 for directed evolution to engineer enzymes, the substance that regulates all chemical processes in the living body. Credit: Nobel Foundation Archive Photo