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Commemorating Women Nobel Prize Laureates In Chemistry, Jordan Smith
Commemorating Women Nobel Prize Laureates In Chemistry, Jordan Smith
Arkansas Women in STEM Conference
In this review study we describe contributions of women chemists who earned a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, notably the most prestigious award in the field. Based on our analysis of data, the number of women Nobel laureates in Chemistry is increasing with time. However, women still are the minority group compared to men in a pool of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.
In the current study we also compared women’s representation in chemistry to women’s representation in two other science fields of a Nobel Prize award: (i) Physics and (ii) Physiology or Medicine. Based on our analysis, the numbers of …