Their research or application has made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied chemistry.
Eight women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (listed above), awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Irene Joliot-Curie, Marie's daughter, became the second woman to be awarded this prize in 1935 for her discovery of artificial radioactivity.
Forty five years later, Ada Yonath shared the prize with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome.
[3] Three women have been awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, they are: In the periodic table of elements, two chemical elements are named after a female scientist: The following list is split into the centuries when the majority of the scientist's work was performed.