Linda Buck.
Six Nobel Women in Focus
Linda Buck - Discovered How Our Sense of Smell Works
Linda
Buck's parents urged her to think independently, to be critical of her
own ideas and to do something worthwhile with her life. By chance, she
read an article about odor detection. The basic principles for
recognizing and remembering about 10,000 different odors were not
understood. This fascinated Linda Buck, who tried to determine how
odorants are initially detected in the nose. Together with co-Laureate
Richard Axel, she clarified how our olfactory system works. Linda Buck
is one of eleven female Medicine Laureates.
Short video documentary about the 2004 Medicine Laureates
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Maria Goeppert Mayer.
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
Made the First Advanced Model of Nuclear Structure
Maria
Goeppert Mayer was determined to become the seventh professor in her
family. She started at the university - yet, at that time it was not
trivially easy for a woman to do so. She was attracted to physics, and
later began researching how atomic nuclei are built up, including the
so-called "magic numbers" that had long puzzled scientists. After only a
year, in 1949, she found the solution! Maria Goeppert Mayer is one of
two women awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
More about Maria Goeppert Mayer's work
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Irène Joliot-Curie
Discovered Artificial Radioactivity
Daughter
to Nobel Laureates Marie and Pierre Curie, she became involved in her
mother's work at an early age, exposing herself to large doses of
radiation. Either alone or in collaboration with her husband, Frédéric
Joliot, she did important work on natural and artificial radioactivity.
They were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize, an honor Marie Curie never
witnessed, as she died of leukemia in 1934. Irène Joliot-Curie is one of
four women awarded the Chemistry Prize.
Watch Irène Joliot-Curie's photo gallery
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Irène Joliot-Curie.
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Alice Munro.
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Alice Munro
Depicts Difficult Relationships
By
the time she was eleven, Alice Munro was a reader. She also wrote
poetry, and made up stories in her mind on her way home from school,
stories which she later wrote down. Alice Munro portrays the everyday
world. The flat Canadian agricultural landscape, with its broad rivers
and seemingly bland small towns, is where most of her short stories
unfold. But the serenity and simplicity are deceptive in every way.
Alice Munro is the most recently awarded of the 13 female Literature
Laureates.
Read Alice Munro's novel In Sight of the Lake
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Malala Yousafzai
Works for Children's Right to Education
Young
Malala Yousafzai always had a thirst for education. She loved learning
and discovering new things. But in 2012, her world changed into a place
of terrorism, and girls were stopped from going to school. Malala
Yousafzai raised her voice in protest and was shot, but survived.
Sixteen women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during the years.
Malala Yousafzai is the most recent Laureate, and the youngest ever,
only 17 years. She was awarded for her struggle against the suppression
of children and for their right to education.
Listen to Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Lecture
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Malala Yousafzai
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Elinor Ostrom.
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Elinor Ostrom
Studied the Management of Common Property
Elinor
Ostrom is the first and only woman awarded a Prize in Economic
Sciences. She grew up during the depression, being a poor kid in a rich
kid's school. Despite a lack of support from home, she went to college.
Although the university discouraged her from studying political science,
she earned a Ph.D. in the field. She challenged the conventional wisdom
by demonstrating how local property can be successfully managed by
local commons without any regulation by central authorities or
privatization.
Read more about her life
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日本からも早くノーベル賞を受賞するような女性が出て欲しいものですね。
STAP細胞の時は本当に期待したのですが。
最初の受賞者は誰で、いつごろ現われるでしょうか。