#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. It leads to Marie becoming the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. She goes on to win another, as does her daughter Irene.

The committee had initially planned to give the prize for the radium work to Pierre and Henri Becquerel only. A committee member alerted Pierre, who complained until Marie was included.

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#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she had founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.

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#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she had founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2018, Donna Strickland – along with Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou – accepts the Nobel prize for Physics.

Only the third woman to win the physics prize, her wikipedia biography had been declined for lack of notability.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature for depicting life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Youyou Tu accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2014, Malala Yousafzay accepts the Nobel prize for Peace alongside Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala has been campaigning for equal access to education for girls since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Herta Müller accepts the Nobel prize for Literature. During the Ceauşescu dictatorship in Romania, she was persecuted for refusing to work for the secret police and writing criticism of the state. She emigrated to Germany in 1987.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz – accepts the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on ribosomes.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak accept the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on chromosomes.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in Northern Ireland.

Together they had formed the Community of Peace People, which is still active today.

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#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1983, Barbara McClintock gives her Nobel lecture, as part of accepting the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.

McClintock discovered mobile genetic elements in plants before the genetic code and the structure of the DNA double helix were known.

Hear her Nobel lecture here: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1983/mcclintock/lecture/

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