NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS GERTY THERESA CORI

Gertrude Theresa Cori was born in Praga in 1896. She was the third woman to win a Nobel prize in Science and the first woman to win a Nobel prize in Medicine.

    She received the nobel prize in 1947  for discovering the mechanism by which glycogen -a derivative of glucose is converted to lactic acid in muscle tissue and is then resynthesized and stored in the body as an energy source (known as the Cori cycle ).

     Gerty Cori died on October 26th, 1957 after making a very important discovery so, in the following years, people could further investigate the effects of certain nutrients in our body.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER TONI MORRISON

WOMEN CAN ALSO WIN NOBEL PRIZES By Elena García de Enterría 3º A ESO.

Toni Morrison

Actually, there are 44 female winners of nobel prizes.

In 1993, they gave a nobel prize to Toni Morrison, who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.

Her novels are known, for epic themes, vivid dialogue and richly detailed characters.

 Her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved.

WRITING CAREER

She began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard who met to discuss their work. Her novels were typically concentrate in black women, but Morrison does not identify her works as feminist.

In addition to her novels, Morrison has also co-written books for children with her younger son, Slade, who worked as a painter and musician.

BEST KNOWN NOVELS

In 1975, her novel Sula, was nominated for the National Book Award. Her third novel, brought her national attention.

In 1987 Morrison´s novel Beloved became a critical success. That same year, Morrison took a visiting professorship at Bard College. Beloved was adapted into the 1998 film starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

Out of a very gifted field of candidates, Morrison chose young Australian novelist Julia Leigh as her protégée.

Novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Jazz, Paradise, A Mercy, Home…

Children´s Literature: The Big Box, The Book of Mean People, Peeny Butter Fudge…

WOMEN NOBEL PRIZE WONNERS MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie’s Life

Maria  Sklodowska was born Warsaw in 1867.Her father and mother were both teachers. They had 4 other children, all of them older than Marya. She had a brother named Jozef and 3 sisters, Zofia, Bronia and Helena.

At the time Marie lived, University was no option for women.  But Marie’s goal was to get a teacher diploma and return to Poland. She finished high school at 15 with the highest honours.

She worked as a private tutor for children before moving to Paris in 1891, to study mathematics and physics at Sorbonne. That was when she became to be called Marie.

However, she did not return to Poland.  She knew she’d stay in France when she met French scientist Pierre Curie.  She married him in 1985, and they had to daughters, Irene and Eve. They worked together with very good result.  However, their most famous discovery was made by Marie Curie alone. It was that of Radium and Polonium, being the last one named after her native country.

Due to the high exposition to radiation she suffered, she’d pay a high price. She died of aplastic anemia in 1934.

By Pablo López and David Peña

WOMEN NOBEL WINNERS ELLEN JOHNSON

ELLEN JOHNSON

BIOGRAPHY:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the 24th and current President ofLiberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She was one of the founders and the political leader of National Patriotic Front of Liberia, the warlord Charles Taylor's party. She placed a very distant second in the 1997 presidential election won by Charles Taylor. She won the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006. She successfully ran for re-election in 2011. Sirleaf is the first elected female head of state in Africa.

Sirleaf was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen. The women were recognized "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.

AWARDS:

§  2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Indiana University

§  2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dartmouth College

§  2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University

§  2009 Awarded the EITI Award for "the rapid progress the country has made towards implementation of the EITI"

§  2009 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Tampa

§  2010 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale University

§  2010 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

§  2010 Friend of the Media in Africa Award from The African Editor's Union2011 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University

§  2011 African Gender Award

§  2011 Nobel Peace Prize

      Administration and Cabinet

Following her election in 2005, Sirleaf pledged to promote national reconciliation by bringing in opposition leaders into her administration. Opposition politicians who joined her initial administration included Minister of Transport Jeremiah Sulunteh, Minister of Education Joseph Korto, and Ambassador to the United Nations Nathaniel Barnes.

BY DAVID PEREZ AND PABLO LERA

WOMEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS NELLY SACHS

Nobel prizes for women 

    

Nelly Sachs, she was born on the 10th of December in 1891 and she died on the 12th of May 1970.

She was aJewish German poet and playwright, whose experiences resulted from the rise of the Nazis in World War II.

In 1940 she left her native country to move to live in Sweden. Her later writings profoundly Jewish theme is lyrically inspired by the tragedies of Jewish history. Her Oh, fireplaces includes verse play Eli, written in 1943 and premiered on German radio in 1958.

 Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels, other works include the poems Zeichen im Sand and Verzauberung.

In 1966 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

These are some of her Works:

Before it grows, I hear Isaiah

Everywhere, Jerusalem

Lovers are sheltered

Choir of Dildos

Correspondence

The end of the search

Late poems

The sufferings of Israel

Burning puzzle

Signs in the aren

Travel in the region without dust

Flight and metamorphosis

In 1947 appeared in East Berlin, his first book of poems: In the abodes of death, dedicated to his brothers and sister disappeared in the Nazi death camps.

By: Valeria and Marcela, 3ºA

WOMEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS MARIE CURIE

Marie Skłodowska-Curie was born 7 November 1867 and dead in the 4 July 1934. Was a French-Polish physicist and chemist , famous for her work about radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two diferents tipe of nobels, and the only person to win in multiple science. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), and in 1995 became the first woman to be buried on her own merits in the pantheon of nobels  in Paris.

She was born  in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891 when he have 24years, she followed her older sister Bronistawa to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work0. She won her Nobel Prize in Physics in the 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She was the only  winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres. While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska-Curie (she used both surnames) never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish languages  and took them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element that she discovered – polonium, which she first isolated in 1898 – after her native country.

Curie died in 1934 of a plastic anemia brought on by her years of exposure to radiation.

                                                             By : Alfonso pereda Gutierrez and Alba merino G utierrez