#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.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/alexievich/lecture/
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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.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/lecture/
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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.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/lecture/
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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.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2009/muller/lecture/
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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: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/yonath/lecture/
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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:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/summary/
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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:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1976/williams/lecture/
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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.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.
Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4
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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.
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