In Pics | Women who have won Nobel Prize in sciences

Maria Skłodowska-Curie | Nobel Prize for Physics | Year: 1903 | Curie was awarded the prize for research on radiation phenomenon. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Maria Goeppert Mayer | Nobel Prize for Physics | Year: 1963 | Mayer was awarded the prize for her work on nuclear shell structure. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Donna Strickland | Nobel Prize for Physics | Year: 2018 | Strickland was awarded the prize for her inventions in laser physics. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Andrea M Ghez | Nobel Prize for Physics | Year: 2020 | Ghez was awarded the prize for discovery of a supermassive compact object in the centre of Milky Way galaxy. Credit: Andrea M. Ghez Official Website

Gerty Cori | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 1947 | Cori was awarded the prize for her work concerning conversion of glycogen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 1977 | Yalow was awarded the prize for development of radioimmunoassay technique. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Barbara McClintock | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 1983 | McClintock was awarded the prize for finding mobile genetic elements. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Rita Levi-Montalcini | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 1986 | Levi-Montalcini was awarded the prize for discovery of growth factors. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Gertrude B Elion | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 1988 | Elion was awarded for finding principles for drug treatment. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Linda B Buck | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 2004 | Buck was awarded for her work on olfactory system. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 2008 | Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the prize for discovering human immunodeficiency virus or the HIV. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Elizabeth Blackburn | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 2009 | Blackburn was awarded the prize for her work concerning chromosomes. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Carol W Greider | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 2009 | Greider was awarded for her work concerning chromosomes. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

May-Britt Moser | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 2014 | Moser was awarded for her work on grid cells, which make up positioning system in the brain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Tu Youyou | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Year: 2015 | Youyou was awarded for discovering novel therapy for malaria. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Emmanuelle Charpentier | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Year: 2020 | Charpentier was awarded for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping

Jennifer Doudna | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Year: 2020 | Doudna was awarded for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping

Irène Joliot-Curie | Nobel Prize for Chemistry | Year: 1935 | Curie was awarded for discovery of new radioactive elements. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | Nobel Prize for Chemistry | Year: 1964 | Hodgkin was awarded for determining biomolecules using X-ray techniques. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Ada Yonath | Nobel Prize for Chemistry | Year: 2009 | Yonath was awarded for work on structure and function of ribosome. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Maria Skłodowska-Curie | Nobel Prize for Chemistry | Year: 1911 | Curie was awarded for discovery of elements radium and polonium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Frances H Arnold | Nobel Prize for Chemistry | Year: 2018 | Arnold was awarded for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes. Credit: Wikimedia Commons