All These Amazing Nobel Women
Alice Munro
Depicts difficult relationships and moral conflicts
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Contributes to securing peace in Liberia
Leymah Gbowee
Works to bring an end to war in Liberia
Tawakkol Karman
Struggles for women's rights in Yemen
Elinor Ostrom
Studied the management of common property
Herta Müller
Depicts corruption, intolerance and repression
Elizabeth Blackburn
Identified the enzyme telomerase
Carol Greider
Identified the enzyme telomerase
Ada Yonath
Showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Doris Lessing
Wrote about how and why we live
Wangari Maathai
Founded the Green Belt Movement and mobilized poor women to plant trees in Africa
Linda Buck
Discovered how our sense of smell works
Elfriede Jelinek
Criticizes society in her writing
Shirin Ebadi
Works for human rights in Iran
Jody Williams
Works to ban and remove anti-personnel land mines
Wislawa Szymborska
Wrote poetry that links the past with the present
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Discovered genetic mechanisms controlling early development
Toni Morrison
Writes about black women in a male dominated society
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Campaigns for human rights in Guatemala
Nadine Gordimer
Depicts the consequences of apartheid
Aung San Suu Kyi
Works for democracy and human rights in Myanmar
Rosalyn Yalow
Developed a methodology for the determination of protein hormones in the blood
Gertrude B. Elion
Discovered important principles for drug treatment
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Investigated how the nervous system grows and develops
Barbara McClintock
Discovered mobile genetic elements, "jumping genes"
Alva Myrdal
Played a central role in the United Nations' disarmament negotiations
Mother Teresa
Worked for the poor in Calcutta through her order, the Missionaries of Charity
Betty Williams
Founded a grassroots movement against violence in Northern Ireland
Mairead Corrigan
Founded a grassroots movement against violence in Northern Ireland
Nelly Sachs
Represents the tragedy of the Jewish people in her writing
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Determined the crystal structures of penicillin and vitamin B12
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Made the first advanced model of nuclear structure
Gerty Cori
Worked on glycogen and glucose metabolism
Emily Greene Balch
Leader of the American peace movement
Gabriela Mistral
Wrote lyrical poetry
Pearl Buck
Wrote about peasant life in China
Jane Addams
Social worker active in the peace movement
Sigrid Undset
Wrote powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages
Grazia Deledda
Portrayed the harsh life in Sardinia in her poetry
Irène Joliot-Curie
Discovered artificial radioactivity
Selma Lagerlöf
Depicted the life of Nordic peasants
Bertha von Suttner
Active in the peace movement
Marie Curie
Discovered the elements radium and polonium
