This document discusses several notable female chemists who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry or other awards: - Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for discovering radium and polonium. Her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won in 1935 for discovering artificial radioactivity. - Dorothy Hodgkin won in 1964 for developing protein crystallography and determining structures like penicillin. - Ada Yonath shared the prize in 2009 for determining the structure and function of the ribosome. - Frances Arnold became the first American woman to win the chemistry Nobel in 2018 for developing directed evolution of enzymes.

1. “Breaking the Barriers”
Women who changed
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2. Five women have won the nobel prize in chemistry which is awarded annually since 1901 by the royal
Swedish academy of sciences-
•Marie curie was the first women to receive the prize in 1911 which was her second nobel prize ( she also
won the prize in physics in 1903 along with Pierre curie and Henri Becquerel – making her the only woman
to be award two nobel prizes).
•Her prize in chemistry was 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.
•Irene Joliot – Curie , Marie’s daughter, became the second woman to be awarded this prize in 1935 for her
discovery of artificial radioactivity.
•Dorothy Hodgkin won the prize in 1964 for the development of protein crystallography. Among her
significant discoveries are the structures of penicillin and vitamin B12.
• Forty five years later, Ada Yonath shared the prize with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A.
Steitz for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome.

3. • 1911 – Marie Sklodowska-Curie - discovery
of radium & polonium.
• 1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie - artificial radioactivity
• 1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - protein crystallography
• 2009 – Ada E. Yonath - Structure & function of the ribosome
• 2018 – Frances Arnold - directed evolution to engineer enzymes

4. Marie Sklodowska-Curie - discovery of radium & polonium
Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska 7 November 1867
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died 4 July 1934 (aged 66)Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Cause of death Aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation
Residence Poland, France
Citizenship Poland (by birth) France (by marriage)
Alma mater University of Paris ESPCI
Known for Radioactivity,Polonium,Radium
Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal(1903),Matteucci Medal(1904)
Elliott Cresson Medal(1909),Albert Medal (1910),
Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1911),Willard Gibbs Award(1921)
Scientific career
Fields Physics, chemistry
Institutions University of Paris,Institut du Radium,École Normale Supérieure
French Academy of Medicine,
International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
Thesis Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive Substances)
Doctoral advisor Gabriel Lippmann

5. 1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie - artificial radioactivity
Born Irène Curie
12 September 1897Paris, France
Died 17 March 1956 (aged 58) Paris, France
Cause of death Leukemia
Nationality French
Alma mater University of Paris
Spouse(s) Frédéric Joliot-Curie (m. 1926)
Children Hélène Langevin-Joliot & Pierre Joliot
Awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1935)
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry, Physics
Institutions University of Paris, Radium Institute
Doctoral advisor Paul Langevin

6. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin- protein crystallography
Born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, 12 May 1910
Cairo, Egypt
Died 29 July 1994 (aged 84) Ilmington,Warwickshire, England
Residence Oxford, England
Nationality British
Education Sir John Leman Grammar School
Alma mater Somerville College, Oxford (BA),University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for Development of protein crystallography
Determining the structure of insulin
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964),Order of Merit (1965)
EMBO Member (1970)
Copley Medal (1976)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982)
Scientific career
Fields Biochemistry, X-ray crystallography
Thesis X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (1937)
Doctoral advisor John Desmond Bernal

7. 2009 – Ada E. Yonath - structure & function of the ribosome
Born Ada Lifshitz ,22 June 1939 (age 79)
Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel)
Residence Israel
Nationality Israeli
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Weizmann Institute of Science
Known for Cryo bio-crystallography
Awards Harvey Prize (2002) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2006)
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008)
Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2008)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
Scientific career
Fields Crystallography
Institutions Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral avdvisor wolfie traub

8. 1.Frances Arnold
Born Frances Hamilton Arnold
July 25, 1956 (age 62)
Edgewood, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education Princeton University (BS)
University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Known for Directed evolution of enzymes
Awards Garvan–Olin Medal(2005),
FASEB Excellence in Science Award (2007),
Draper Prize (2011)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2013),
Sackler Prize in Convergence Research (2017),
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018)
Scientific career
Fields Chemical engineering , Bioengineering, Biochemistry
Institutions California Institute of Technology Thesis Design and
Scale
Up of Affinity Separations (1985)
Doctoral advisor Arvey Blanch

9. L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Laureates
(Chemistry)
• 2015 - Xie Yi (Asia-Pacific) - inorganic chemistry
• 2015 - Molly S. Shoichet (North America) -
photochemistry
• 2011 - Faiza Al-Harafi (Africa/Arab States) -
electrochemistry

10. Asima Chatterjee
•Born 23 September 1917( Kolkata, India)
•Died 22 November 2006 (aged 89)Kolkata, India
•Nationality Indian
•Alma mater University of Calcutta
Scientific career
•Fields Organic chemistry, phytomedicine
•Institutions University of Calcutta
•Known for research on vinca alkaloids the development
of anti-epileptic drugs
development of anti-malarial drugs.
•Awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Padma Bhushan
•first woman to receive a Doctorate of Science from an Indian
university
•She was nominated by the President of India as a Member of
the Rajya Sabha

11. Anju Chadha
Born Ahmednagar, India
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Nowrosjee Wadia College,University of Poona
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Awards 1992 Fellow,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Scientific career
Fields Bio-chemistry(biocatalysis and enzyme
mechanisms, enzymes in organic
synthesis, asymmetric synthesis using
enzymes, chirotechnology, greenchemistry
and biosensors.)
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

12. Charusita Chakravarty
Born 5 May 1964
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Died 29 March 2016 (aged 51) New Delhi, India
Residence New Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Delhi University, Cambridge University
Awards Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (2009)
Indian National Science Academy Medal for
Young Scientists (1996)
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Theoretical
& Computational Chemistry
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Doctoral advisor David Clary

13. Darshan Ranganathan
Born 4 June 1941
Died 4 June 2001 (aged 60)
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Delhi University
Known for ATP-imidazole cycle, urea cycle, designing protein tertiary structure
Spouse(s) Subramania Ranganathan
Awards Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences;
TWAS Prize in Chemistry, 1999; Senior Research Scholarship
of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851,
A.V. Rama Rao Foundation Award, Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary
Visiting Fellowship, and Sukh Dev Endowment Lectureship.
Scientific career
Fields Organic chemistry
Institutions IIT Kanpur
Thesis (1967)
Doctoral advisor T.R. Sheshadri