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

Table 3.

Year-wise nominations for Nobel Prize in chemistry from 1901 to 1963

Chemistry
year total nominations number of females name times nominator
1901 20 Nil NA NA NA

1902 24 Nil NA NA NA

1903 23 Nil NA NA NA

1904 32 Nil NA NA NA

1905 38 Nil NA NA NA

1906 19 Nil NA NA NA

1907 30 Nil NA NA NA

1908 34 Nil NA NA NA

1909 27 Nil NA NA NA

1910 22 1 Walthere Spring 1 Jean Krutwig

1911 19 1 Marie Curie 2 Gasten Darbaux, Svante Arrhenius

1912 31 Nil NA NA NA

1913 31 Nil NA NA NA

1914 28 Nil NA NA NA

1915 30 Nil NA NA NA

1916 27 Nil NA NA NA

1917 17 Nil NA NA NA

1918 11 Nil NA NA NA

1919 22 Nil NA NA NA

1920 29 Nil NA NA NA

1921 46 Nil NA NA NA

1922 34 Nil NA NA NA

1923 16 Nil NA NA NA

1924 35 1 Lise Meitner 1 Heinrich Goldschmidt

1925 25 1 Lise Meitner 2 Heinrich Goldschmidt, Kasimir Fajans

1926 37 Nil NA NA NA

1927 30 Nil NA NA NA

1928 39 Nil NA NA NA

1929 61 1 Lise Meitner 1 Max Planck

1930 29 1 Lise Meitner 1 Max Planck

1931 43 Nil NA NA NA

1932 40 Nil NA NA NA

1933 39 2 Ida Noddack 2 Walther Nernst, Karl Wagner
Lise Meitner 1 Max Planck

1934 41 1 Lise Meitner 1 Max planck

1935 50 2 Irene joliot Curie 3 Ernest Lord Rutherford, Hans von Euler chelpin, Theodor Svedberg
Ida Noddack 1 Wolf Muller

1936 38 1 Lise Meitner 2 Adolf Deissmann, Max Planck

1937 37 2 Lise Meitner 2 Adolf Deissmann, Max Planck
Ida Noddack 1 Anton Skrabal

1938 17 Nil NA NA NA

1939 35 2 Dorothy Wrinch; 2 Ernst Alexanderson, Irving Langmuir, Theodor Svedberg
Lise Meitner 1

1940 34 Nil NA NA NA

1941 23 1 Lise Meitner 1 Frans Jaeger

1942 27 1 Lise Meitner 1 Wilhelm Palmaer

1943 18 Nil NA NA NA

1944 37 Nil NA NA NA

1945 24 Nil NA NA NA

1946 33 1 Lise Meitner 1 Kasimir Fajans

1947 29 1 lise Meitner 2 Niels Bohr, Nil Dhar

1948 74 1 lise Meitner 2 Oskar Klein, Niels Bohr

1949 59 Nil NA NA NA

1950 68 2 Dorothy Hodgkin 1 Joseph Donnay
Therese Trefouel 1 Pauline-Ramart Lucas

1951 55 Nil NA NA NA

1952 67 1 Marguerite Perry 1 Louis Hackspill

1953 39 Nil NA NA NA

1954 72 Nil NA NA NA

1955 74 Nil NA NA NA

1956 80 2 Dorothy Hodgkin 1 Sir Robert Robinson
Joan folkes 1 John Northrop

1957 95 2 Marietta Blau 1 Erwin Schrodinger
Dorothy t Hodgkin 4 W Lipscomb, William Wardlaw, Robert Livingston, Leopold Ruzicka

1958 85 2 Marguerite Perry, 1 Georges Chaudron,
Maria G Mayer 1 Willis Lamb Jr.

1959 69 1 Dorothy Hodgkin 3 O Bastiansen, Johannes Bijvoet, C Martius

1960 82 1 Dorothy Hodgkin 1 Richard L Synge

1961 80 2 Dorothy Hodgkin, 2 Sir Robert Robinson, Sir Lawrence Bragg
Mireille Perry 1 Clement Courty

1962 69 1 Dorothy Hodgkin 1 Arne Westgren

1963 88 1 Dorothy Hodgkin 3 John Cowdery Kendrew, Max Ferdinand Perutz, W Bragg