Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?
Key Points:
- Several Nobel Prizes across Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine remain unclaimed, with notable discoveries including synthesis of radioactive elements (1935) and catalytic conversion of glycogen (1947).
- Key scientific achievements awaiting recognition include the discovery of mobile genetic elements (1983), growth factors (1986), and principles for drug treatment (1988).
- Recent unawarded prizes highlight advances such as genome editing methods (2020), directed evolution of enzymes (2018), and development of click chemistry (2022).
- Physics prizes pending include discoveries related to nuclear shell structure (1963), ultra-short optical pulses (2018), supermassive compact objects in the galaxy (2020), and attosecond light pulses (2023).
- Unclaimed awards in Physiology or Medicine feature breakthroughs like the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (2008), chromosome protection by telomeres (2009), and novel malaria therapy (2015).