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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen 🗃️
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posed photograph of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.
April 20, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️

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Toni Morrison in profile. She is a Black woman with greying locs
December 7, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen 🗃️

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photo of Baroness Bertha von Suttner. She is a white woman with light hair, wearing what looks like Victorian mourning clothes.
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen
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February 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen 🗃️
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Marie Curie in a posed photo in her lab. She's a white woman with dark hair, holding a glass flask and a metal or ceramic dish.
April 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️

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Toni Morrison in profile. She is a Black woman with greying locs.
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Time to fill my cup. #NOBELWomen
September 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
February 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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Marie Curies Einfluss auf die #Krebstherapie behandeln wir in unserer Hör-Doku #Krebsbesiegen:

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April 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.

This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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December 10, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.

This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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December 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature for depicting life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals.

www.nobelprize.org/p...

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Svetlana Alexievich giving a talk. She is a white woman with dark blonde hair.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen
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Marie Curie in a posed photo in her lab. She's a white woman with dark hair, holding a glass flask and a metal or ceramic dish.
April 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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*shoving aside a nerd*
mysterious attractive nobelwomen: hello, I think it would be kind of cool if you bathed in my blood actually
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Apr 16
In honor of National Poetry Month, Reading the Weird takes on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Christabel"! A cautionary tale about mysterious, attractive noblewomen...with some strong "Carmilla" vibes!

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Never Trust a Beautiful Damsel in the Woods: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Christabel” - Reactor
A beautiful stranger who can act terrified one moment and exert dark charisma the next...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their community activism in Northern Ireland.

Betty gave their lecture the following day:
www.nobelprize.org/p...

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen

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Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams side by side. They are both white women with dark hair.
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.

www.nobelprize.org/p...

#NobelWomen

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Tu Youyou after accepting her medal. She is a Chinese woman with dark hair.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz – accepts the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on ribosomes.

She gave her lecture on 8 December: www.nobelprize.org/p...

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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Ada E. Yonath accepting her Nobel medal. She is a white woman with grey hair.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2014, Malala Yousafzay accepts the Nobel prize for Peace alongside Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala has been campaigning for equal access to education since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.

www.nobelprize.org/p...

#NobelWomen

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press photo of Malala in front of a chalkboard with maths on it. She is a Pakistani woman wearing a shayla - a loosely wrapped headscarf.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Nobel Women
@NobelWomen

“If we stop fighting, we will cease to exist.”

Why documenting war crimes is essential to #Ukraine ’s survival and to global justice.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk
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‘If we stop fighting we will cease to exist,’ says Ukrainian Nobel laureate | CNN
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk about her investigations into alleged war crimes perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine.
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July 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature for depicting life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals.

www.nobelprize.org/p...

#NobelWomen

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Svetlana Alexievich giving a talk. She is a white woman with dark blonde hair.
December 10, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Herta Müller accepts the Nobel prize for Literature.

During the Ceauşescu dictatorship in Romania, she was persecuted for refusing to work for the secret police and writing criticism of the state. She emigrated to Germany in 1987.

www.nobelprize.org/p...

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Herta Müller with her Nobel medal. she is a white woman with dark hair.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.

www.nobelprize.org/p...

#NobelWomen

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Tu Youyou after accepting her medal. She is a Chinese woman with dark hair.
December 10, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak accept the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on chromosomes.

They gave their lectures on 7 December:
www.nobelprize.org/p...

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak at the ceremony. They are all white people in evening wear.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their community activism in Northern Ireland.

Betty gave their lecture the following day:
www.nobelprize.org/p...

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen

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Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams side by side. They are both white women with dark hair.
December 10, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz – accepts the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on ribosomes.

She gave her lecture on 8 December: www.nobelprize.org/p...

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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Ada E. Yonath accepting her Nobel medal. She is a white woman with grey hair.
December 10, 2024 at 8:42 AM