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Marie Curie - For her joint research on the radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel

Marie Curie - For her discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element

Jane Addams - For her social reform work and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Pearl S. Buck - For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces

Emily Greene Balch - For her lifelong work for international peace and cooperation

Gerty Cori - For her discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan - For founding the Community of Peace People, an organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Nadine Gordimer - For her magnificent epic writing has been of very great benefit to humanity

Rigoberta Menchú Tum - For her work as a proponent of indigenous rights in Guatemala and around the world

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - For her discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development

Elfriede Jelinek - For her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - For her discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman - For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work

Alice Munro - For her master of the contemporary short story