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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

#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.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/alexievich/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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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 since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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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.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2009/muller/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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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.

She gave her lecture on 8 December: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/yonath/lecture/

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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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.

They gave their lectures on 7 December:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/summary/

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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

Betty gave their lecture the following day:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1976/williams/lecture/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen

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The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.

This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

#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 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.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 26 Dec 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.

In 1903, Marie, Pierre and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radiation. Marie was the first woman to receive the award.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

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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.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/alexievich/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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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 since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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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.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2009/muller/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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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.

She gave her lecture on 8 December: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/yonath/lecture/

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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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.

They gave their lectures on 7 December:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/summary/

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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

Betty gave their lecture the following day:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1976/williams/lecture/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen

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The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.

This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

1/9

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

#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 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.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

#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.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #History #NobelWomen #Histodons

#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.

#WomenInHistory #WomenPeaceActivists #NobelWomen #EuropeanHistory #LiteraryWomen

#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.

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

#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.

#LiteraryWomen #NobelWomen