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. 2017 Dec 12;25(2):63–78. doi: 10.1159/000481906

Table 1.

Year-wise nominations for Nobel Prize in medicine from 1901 to 1951

Medicine
year nominations total total females name number of times each female nominated nominees
1901 128 Nil NA NA NA

1902 90 Nil NA NA NA

1903 81 Nil NA NA NA

1904 117 Nil NA NA NA

1905 142 Nil NA NA NA

1906 98 Nil NA NA NA

1907 94 Nil NA NA NA

1908 121 Nil NA NA NA

1909 125 Nil NA NA NA

1910 159 Nil NA NA NA

1911 92 Nil NA NA NA

1912 131 Nil NA NA NA

1913 152 Nil NA NA NA

1914 170 Nil NA NA NA

1915 65 Nil NA NA NA

1916 71 Nil NA NA NA

1917 79 Nil NA NA NA

1918 65 Nil NA NA NA

1919 119 Nil NA NA NA

1920 141 Nil NA NA NA

1921 110 Nil NA NA NA

1922 86 1 Cecile Vogt 3 Emil Holmgren, G Bergmark, Robert Barany

1923 141 2 Maud Slye, 1 Albert Soiland
Cecile Vogt 1 Karl Kleist

1924 102 Nil NA

1925 155 1 Gladys Dick 5 A Hewlett, Ludwig Hektoen, Arthue Elliott, W Howel, Wilfred Manwaring

1926 102 2 Cecile Vogt 1 Wilhelm Weygandt
Gladys Dick 2 Ulrich Friedemann, Fred Neufeld

1927 108 1 Gladys dick 1 Robert legge

1928 147 2 Cecile Vogt 1 E. Foerstor
Gladys Dick 11 Dallas Phemister, Archibald Church, Clifford Grulee, James Gill, R Woodyatt, Oliver Ormsby, Chas. Elliott, Thor Rothstein, Frederick Meuller, J Miller, James Herrick

1929 139 1 Cecile Vogt 1 Karl Kleist

1930 121 2 Cecile Vogt 1 A. Policard
Alice Bernheim 1 William Clarke

1931 161 Nil NA NA NA

1932 117 Nil NA NA NA

1933 80 Nil NA NA NA

1934 211 Nil NA NA NA

1935 177 Nil NA NA NA

1936 155 Nil NA NA NA

1937 180 Nil NA NA NA

1938 111 Nil NA NA NA

1939 98 3 Susan Smith 1 Osvaldo Polimanti
Marion Blankenhorn 2 Primo Dorello, Osvaldo Polimanti
Lady May Mellanby 3 Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir Frederick Hopkins, J Burn

1940 58 1 Olive smith 1 Frank Pemberton

1941 68 Nil NA NA NA

1942 50 Nil NA NA NA

1943 28 Nil NA NA NA

1944 23 Nil NA NA NA

1945 47 Nil NA NA NA

1946 86 2 Gerty Cori; 1 Joseph Erlanger
M Ljubimova 1 Leon Orbeli

1947 85 2 Gerty Cori; 1 Joseph Erlanger
Helen Taussig 1 R Ghormley

1948 148 Nil NA NA NA

1949 103 1 Helen Taussig 2 George Whipple, Corneille Heymans

1950 121 2 Cecile Vogt; 1 Franz Volhard
Helen Taussig 7 FV Brucke, CFW Illingworth, W Denk, H Kleinschmidt, H Hellner, P Plum, R Schoen

1951 109 4 Cecile Vogt; 1 P Vogel
Miriam Menkin, Helen 1 B Szabuniewicz
Tausig, 7 Neils Dungal, C De Garis, O Ullrich, G Morin, H Elbel, Heckenroth, G Jangle
Madge Macklin * *
*

Nominator's name not mentioned on site.