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It was the first run through a Nobel science prize was given to more than one woman, yet no men, in a particular class. This has happened multiple times for different men and no women in a particular classification since the prizes were granted beginning in 1901.
Scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier reacts after winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry https://t.co/D6fQuRIE4B
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In the 120 years of Nobel prizes in medication, material science and science, prizes were granted multiple times to men and multiple times to ladies. The prize can be part upwards of three different ways or given to two or only one individual. A few people, as Marie Curie, have won more than once, and there have been quite a long while when no prize is granted.
Three different occasions, a lady won one of the sciences without anyone else. This has occurred for men multiple times. This implies multiple times, remembering this year for science, there have been all-female prizes in one of the three sciences and multiple times, including this year in medication, there have been all-male prizes in one of technical disciplines.
Since this year’s Chemistry Laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna invented CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors they have reshaped the life sciences.
In this TED talk Doudna explains their discovery, as well as its implications. #NobelPrizehttps://t.co/LlwUpCNl9n
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2020
This year, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the science prize for building up the CRISPR strategy for genome altering.
In 1911, Marie Curie won the science without anyone else for the disclosure of radium and polonium.
”For a really long time, numerous revelations made by ladies have been underplayed and they have basically not been perceived,”
In 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna had no idea that their first meeting, in a café in Puerto Rico, would be life-changing.
Read more about their discovery that reshaped the life sciences and has led to the 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry: https://t.co/PCa3Br2HSb pic.twitter.com/R0zMeYQlmW
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2020
American Chemistry Society President Luis Echegoyen, a science educator at the University of Texas El Paso. ”The under portrayal of ladies in science has been excessively clear.”
