Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Marie Curie was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won in physics for her research on radioactivity. She won another Nobel ...

The American economic historian and labor economist is the third woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ...

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win a Nobel prize in economics. Her extensive fieldwork focused on how people interact with ecosystems such as forests, fisheries and irrigation systems, ...

Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s. She focused ...

In honor of International Women's Day on March 8, ISRAEL21c compiled a list of eight legendary Israeli women in the sciences.

The theme for the 2025 Women’s History Month is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations.” ...

Han is also the first woman among this year's picks. Han's win marks a historic moment for South Korea, 24 years after then-President Kim Dae-jung was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.

Dr Fehmida Mirza became the first woman Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the first in the Muslim world ...

Karikó, 68, is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine ... Karikó said her husband was the first to pick up the early morning call, handing it to her to hear the news.