Nobel Prize (Chemistry): Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier (CRISPR/Cas9)
This is fucking ground-breaking.
No no - legit, this is a next level announcement, and I'm honestly surprised nobody's talking about this more???
Here's a list of all the times the recipients of a Nobel prize has gone to a panel that is exclusively female:
-Peace, 1905 - Bertha von Suttner
-Literature, 1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
-Chemistry, 1911 - Marie Curie
-Literature, 1926 - Grazia Deledda
-Literature, 1928 - Sigrid Undset
-Literature, 1938 - Pearl S. Buck
-Literature, 1945 - Gabriela Mistral
-Chemistry, 1964 - Dorothy Hodgkin
-Peace, 1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Maguire
-Peace, 1979 - Mother Teresa
-Physiology, 1983 - Barbara McClintock
-Literature, 1991 - Nadine Gordimer
-Peace, 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú
-Literature, 1993 - Toni Morrison
-Literature, 1996 - Wisława Szymborska
-Peace, 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
-Literature, 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
-Peace, 2004 - Wangari Maathai
-Literature, 2009 - Herta Müller
-Peace, 2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakel Karman
-Literature, 2013 - Alice Munro
-Literature, 2015 - Svetlana Alexievich
-Literature, 2018 - Olga Tokarczuk
-Chemistry, 2020 - Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna
See it? I mean, ignoring the fact that the Nobel Prize has been going for more than a century and this list is disturbingly small. Hang on, it's probably hard when this list is almost EXCLUSIVELY Peace and Literature. Let me fix that:
-Chemistry, 1911 - Marie Curie
-Chemistry, 1964 - Dorothy Hodgkin
-Physiology, 1983 - Barbara McClintock
-Chemistry, 2020 - Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna
How about now? That's right - this is the FIRST TIME that the Nobel prize has been awarded to panel of people who is exclusively female. Now we just need to wait for a sole woman/group of only women to get the economics and physics prizes...