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  1. Elizabeth Gibney
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If a woman wins the Nobel Prize in Physics next week, she will be the first to do so in more than 50 years. Over the same period, just one woman has won in chemistry.

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Nature 562, 19 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06879-z

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  • Correction 02 October 2018: An earlier version of the graphic in this story included duplicate data, and the story gave a wrong percentage of women medicine laureates.

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