Statistics for Female Nobel Laureates

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Year	Category	Answer	% Correct
1903	Physics	Marie Curie	95%
1911	Chemistry	Marie Curie	95%
1909	Literature	Selma Lagerlöf	63%
2003	Literature	Elfriede Jelinek	58%
1938	Literature	Pearl S. Buck	58%
2007	Literature	Doris Lessing	53%
2004	Medicine	Linda B. Buck	53%
1993	Literature	Toni Morrison	53%
2013	Literature	Alice Munro	47%
1991	Literature	Nadine Gordimer	47%
2009	Literature	Herta Muller	42%
1979	Peace	Mother Teresa	42%
1966	Literature	Nelly Sachs	42%
1928	Literature	Sigrid Undset	42%
2014	Peace	Malala Yousafszai	37%
1945	Literature	Gabriela Mistral	32%
1905	Peace	Betrtha von Suttner	26%
1926	Literature	Grazia Deledda	26%
2018	Literature	Olga Tokarczuk	26%
1982	Peace	Alva Myrdal	21%
1935	Chemistry	Irene Joliot-Curie	21%
2015	Literature	Svetlana Alexievich	21%
1996	Literature	Wisłava Szymborska	21%
2011	Peace	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	16%
1931	Peace	Jane Addams	16%
2020	Literature	Louise Glück	16%
2021	Peace	Maria Ressa	16%
2009	Chemistry	Ada E. Yonath	11%
2020	Physics	Andrea Ghez	11%
1976	Peace	Betty Williams	11%
2018	Physics	Donna Strickland	11%
1964	Chemistry	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	11%
2009	Economics	Elinor Ostrom	11%
2020	Chemistry	Emmanuelle Charpentier	11%
2019	Economics	Esther Duflo	11%
1947	Medicine	Getty Theresa Cori	11%
2020	Chemistry	Jennifer Doudna	11%
1997	Peace	Jody Williams	11%
1967	Peace	Mairead Corrigan	11%
1992	Peace	Rigoberta Menchu	11%
2004	Peace	Wangari Maathai	11%
1991	Peace	Aung San Suu Kyi	5%
2009	Medicine	Carol W. Greider	5%
1995	Medicine	Christiane Nusslein-Vollhard	5%
2009	Medicine	Elizabeth Blackburn	5%
2011	Peace	Leymah Gbowee	5%
2018	Peace	Nadia Murad	5%
1986	Medicine	Rita Levi-Montalcini	5%
1977	Medicine	Rossalyn Sussman Yalow	5%
2003	Peace	Shirin Ebadi	5%
2011	Peace	Tawakel Karman	5%
2015	Medicine	Tu Youyou	5%
1983	Medicine	Barbara McClintock	0%
1946	Peace	Emily Greene Balch	0%
2018	Chemistry	Frances Arnold	0%
2008	Medicine	Francoise Barre-Sinoussi	0%
1988	Medicine	Gertrude B. Elion	0%
1963	Physics	Maria Goeppert-Mayer	0%
2014	Medicine	May-Britt Moser	0%