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The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.

This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their community activism in Northern Ireland.

Betty gave their lecture the following day:
nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/19…

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Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams side by side. They are both white women with dark hair.

Nobel Peace Prize 1976

The Nobel Peace Prize 1976 was awarded jointly to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan "for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland"
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak accept the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on chromosomes.

They gave their lectures on 7 December:
nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine…

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak at the ceremony. They are all white people in evening wear.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz – accepts the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on ribosomes.

She gave her lecture on 8 December: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistr…

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Ada E. Yonath accepting her Nobel medal. She is a white woman with grey hair.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Herta Müller accepts the Nobel prize for Literature.

During the Ceauşescu dictatorship in Romania, she was persecuted for refusing to work for the secret police and writing criticism of the state. She emigrated to Germany in 1987.

nobelprize.org/prizes/literatu…

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Herta Müller with her Nobel medal. she is a white woman with dark hair.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2009

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 was awarded to Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2014, Malala Yousafzay accepts the Nobel prize for Peace alongside Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala has been campaigning for equal access to education since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.

nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/20…

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press photo of Malala in front of a chalkboard with maths on it. She is a Pakistani woman wearing a shayla - a loosely wrapped headscarf.

Nobel Peace Prize 2014

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.

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Tu Youyou after accepting her medal. She is a Chinese woman with dark hair.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Tu Youyou …
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature for depicting life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals.

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Svetlana Alexievich giving a talk. She is a white woman with dark blonde hair.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2015

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2018, Donna Strickland – along with Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou – accepts the Nobel prize for Physics.

Only the third woman to win the physics prize, her wikipedia biography had previously been declined for lack of notability.

nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/…

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Donna Strickland wearing a head mic whilst giving a talk. She is a white woman with greying hair.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" with one half to Arthur Ashkin "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou a…
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