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#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.
They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.
Watch news footage from the time: gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video…
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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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.
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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…NobelPrize.org
#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.
nobelprize.org/prizes/literatu…
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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"NobelPrize.org
#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.
nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine…
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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 …NobelPrize.org
#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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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"NobelPrize.org
#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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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"NobelPrize.org
#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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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"NobelPrize.org
#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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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"NobelPrize.org
#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…
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen
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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"NobelPrize.org
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.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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