Incredible Women Nobel Prize Winners Who Advanced Our Science Knowledge

The duo has won the prestigious award for the development of a method of genome editing known as CRISPR.

The method allows scientists to alter the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision.

Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Yonath won for creating atom-by-atom maps of the life-giving ribosome. The results from her research are being?used for the production of antibiotics, among other things.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2020, Andrea Ghez became a laureate for her work on supermassive black holes.

Ghez discovered?a supermassive black hole (SMBH) right at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, proving that almost all galaxies have such a SMBH at their centres.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015,?Tu Youyou was awarded for?her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.

In the 1970s, after studying traditional herbal medicines, Youyou Tu managed to extract a substance, artemisinin, which inhibits the malaria parasite.

Born in Fosnav?g, Norway,?May-Britt Moser was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 for her discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

In 2005, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser (husband) discovered a type of cell that is important for determining position close to the hippocampus, an area located in the center of the brain.