The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 49 times between 1901 and 2015. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honored twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 48 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2015. For a complete listing of the females honored with Nobel Prize accolades see Nobel Prize Awarded to Women.
49 prizes to women is indeed a small number as to present, 2015, 874 Laureates have been awarded and 26 organizations, totaling 900 Nobel Prizes since 1901. That is, 94.5% of the Nobel Laureates awarded were men. For more on the distribution of prizes, the laureates and their fields, years without prizes, individuals who declined the prize, and other interesting facts about the awarding of the Nobel Prize, see Nobel Prize Facts.
Via email, the following picture compilation was sent to me in regard to the literary Nobel prize winners, so am continuing to share the compilation. In total 13 of the Nobel Prizes for literature, out of the total 111 prizes to date, have been awarded to women. No better quote sums the earned and appreciated accolades of female Nobel laureates in literature and in other highly merited fields of study than "Since the beginning of the 20th century, female writers have emerged from the shadows of their male colleagues." The 13 honored women for the Nobel Prize in Literature are as follows:
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