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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#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/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen
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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 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, 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 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 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 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 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.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/strickland/lecture/
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