{"id":1879,"date":"2017-02-16T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2016-09-15T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:04:02","slug":"womens-power-womens-justice-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/womens-power-womens-justice-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Power | Women’s Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Theme Thursday today looks at the ten women who have won Nobel Prizes in the past century. Though they are few in numbers, their accomplishments have revolution modern science and how we look at everything today. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them — about 3 percent — have been women. Why? In this updated version of <\/span>Nobel Prize Women in Scienc<\/a>e<\/span><\/i>, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize – winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science…\u201d from Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MARIA GOEPPERT MAYER (1906 \u2013 1972)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"MARIE<\/a>

MARIE CURIE (1867 \u2013 1934)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"GERTY<\/a>

GERTY THERESA CORI (1896 \u2013 1957)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"FRANCOISE<\/a>

FRANCOISE BARR\u00c9-SINOUSSI<\/p><\/div>\n

\"ELIZABETH<\/a>

ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN<\/p><\/div>\n

\"CAROL<\/a>

CAROL W. GREIDER<\/p><\/div>\n

\"ROSALYN<\/a>

ROSALYN YALOW (1921 \u2013 2011)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"DOROTHY<\/a>

DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN (1910 \u2013 1994)<\/p><\/div>\n

COMPLETE LIST OF FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS, BY SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE:<\/h2>\n

PHYSICS<\/h4>\n