How many women have won Nobel Prizes?
Thirty-three, compared to 733men. In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, the prize in physics was awarded to Marie Curie. The last woman was Kenyan environmentalist and human rights activist Wangari Muta Maathai in 2004 for the peace prize. Who was the youngest laureate? Lawrence Bragg, 25, won the physics prize in 1915. At 88, Raymond Davis Jr. became the oldest when he won for physics in 2002. How many prizes have been awarded since 1901? There have been 785 Nobel laureates: 766 individuals and 19 organizations. Any clinkers? Time sometimes puts some accomplishments in a different light. Johannes Fibiger collected the prize in 1926 for supposedly finding the cause of cancer, though that is only now becoming clear. Antonio Egas Moniz received a prize in 1949 for his discovery of “the therapeutic value” of the frontal lobotomy. It did remove the symptoms of mental illness but also the patient’s sense of being. Four years after Israeli Prime Minister Menache
