Statistics for Female Nobel Laureates

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Year	Category	Answer	% Correct
1903	Physics	Marie Curie	99%
1911	Chemistry	Marie Curie	99%
1935	Chemistry	Irene Joliot-Curie	95%
2014	Peace	Malala Yousafszai	44%
1979	Peace	Mother Teresa	29%
1993	Literature	Toni Morrison	26%
1909	Literature	Selma Lagerlöf	19%
2007	Literature	Doris Lessing	16%
1938	Literature	Pearl S. Buck	15%
1996	Literature	Wisłava Szymborska	15%
2022	Literature	Annie Ernaux	14%
1991	Peace	Aung San Suu Kyi	14%
2004	Medicine	Linda B. Buck	14%
2013	Literature	Alice Munro	13%
2003	Literature	Elfriede Jelinek	13%
1992	Peace	Rigoberta Menchu	13%
2018	Literature	Olga Tokarczuk	11%
1928	Literature	Sigrid Undset	11%
1964	Chemistry	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	10%
1945	Literature	Gabriela Mistral	10%
2020	Literature	Louise Glück	10%
1991	Literature	Nadine Gordimer	10%
2011	Peace	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	9%
2009	Literature	Herta Muller	9%
1905	Peace	Betrtha von Suttner	8%
1976	Peace	Betty Williams	8%
1926	Literature	Grazia Deledda	8%
2020	Chemistry	Jennifer Doudna	8%
1997	Peace	Jody Williams	8%
2018	Peace	Nadia Murad	8%
1966	Literature	Nelly Sachs	8%
2015	Literature	Svetlana Alexievich	8%
2015	Medicine	Tu Youyou	8%
1982	Peace	Alva Myrdal	6%
1983	Medicine	Barbara McClintock	6%
2018	Physics	Donna Strickland	6%
2009	Economics	Elinor Ostrom	6%
2020	Chemistry	Emmanuelle Charpentier	6%
2019	Economics	Esther Duflo	6%
1963	Physics	Maria Goeppert-Mayer	6%
2014	Medicine	May-Britt Moser	6%
2003	Peace	Shirin Ebadi	6%
1947	Medicine	Getty Theresa Cori	5%
2021	Peace	Maria Ressa	5%
2009	Chemistry	Ada E. Yonath	4%
2020	Physics	Andrea Ghez	4%
2009	Medicine	Elizabeth Blackburn	4%
1931	Peace	Jane Addams	4%
1986	Medicine	Rita Levi-Montalcini	4%
2004	Peace	Wangari Maathai	4%
2009	Medicine	Carol W. Greider	3%
2022	Chemistry	Carolyn Bertozzi	3%
1946	Peace	Emily Greene Balch	3%
2018	Chemistry	Frances Arnold	3%
2008	Medicine	Francoise Barre-Sinoussi	3%
1988	Medicine	Gertrude B. Elion	3%
2011	Peace	Leymah Gbowee	3%
1967	Peace	Mairead Corrigan	3%
1977	Medicine	Rossalyn Sussman Yalow	3%
2011	Peace	Tawakel Karman	3%
1995	Medicine	Christiane Nusslein-Vollhard	2%