Nobel Prize Winning Women

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  1. 5. , Barbara McClintock studied corn under a microscope which led to her discovery that the pigmentation or ________ of corn kernels is due to jumping genes
  2. 6. , Andrea Ghez discovered a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way known as a _______ ________
  3. 7. , May-Britt Moser won the Nobel Prize for her work as a neuroscientist which is the study of the _________
  4. 9. , Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize jointly for their efforts to bring peace to ___________ __________
  5. 10. , Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in discovering the structure of this famous antibiotic
  6. 11. , Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for the discovery of a substance that can help treat this deadly disease caused by mosquito bites
  7. 13. , Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize jointly for their efforts to bring peace to ___________ __________
  8. 16. , Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to have won one twice, discovered this element alongside her husband Pierre.
  9. 17. , Andrea Ghez discovered a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way known as a _______ ________
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  1. 1. , Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for their discovery of genome editing technology known as __________
  2. 2. , Nelly Sachs won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her powerful poetry representing the voices of people of this religion who were persecuted by the Nazis
  3. 3. , Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her works which reveal the harshness of life living in this Eastern European country with the capital Bucharest and flag colours blue, yellow and red
  4. 4. , Malala Yousafzai was the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize and won it for her work campaigning for the rights of women and children to an education in her home country of ___________
  5. 8. , Toni Morrison was a black Nobel laureate in literature from this country which has a history of race inequality, forming the basis for her novels written after the civil rights movement
  6. 12. , Ada Yonath was the first woman from the middle-east to win a Nobel prize in chemistry for her studies on the structure of these organelles which perform protein synthesis
  7. 14. , Fifty-nine women have been awarded the Nobel Prize but the total number of women who have been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize is _______
  8. 15. , Francoise Barré-Sinoussi won a Nobel prize in medicine after her joint discovery of this virus in 1983, as it caused a global epidemic during which gay people were persecuted