Jody Williams Born: October 9, 1950 Rutland, Vermont, USA Known For: Noble Peace Prize Winner for work to ban landmines We're back with our latest HBD Ladies blog and we're celebrating Nobel Laureate Jody Williams. Jody is an American political activist. She's known for her work banning anti-personnel landmines,...
Gerty Theresa Cori Born: August 15, 1896 Prague, Czech Republic Known For: Biochemist and Nobel Prize Winner For today's birthday blog, we're celebrating a world renowned chemist! Gerty Cori had to fight for equal recognition as her husband, especially since they worked on many projects together.Gerty moved to the...
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska Born: July 2, 1923 Kórnik, Poland Known For: Jewish Poet and Nobel Laureate We love highlighting women who aren't well known here at Abbey Research! Though Wisława is a poet superstar in her native Poland, she didn't really reach international acclaim until 1996, when she...
Betty Williams Born: May 22, 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland Known For: Co-Winner of Nobel Peace Prize After witnessing the death of 3 children in a shooting incident in Belfast in 1976, Betty started organizing a movement for peace during the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland. She eventually...
Rita Levi-Montalchini Born: April 22, 1909 Turin, Italy Known For: Nobel Laureate in Neurobiology Though statistically few women have won the Nobel Prize, especially in the science fields, Rita Levi-Montalchini shared the Nobel Prize in 1986 for Physiology or Medicine with her colleague Stanley Cohen on the basis of...
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