300 Firsts

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Awards

First woman mother and daughter to win Nobel prize
Marie Sklodowska Curie 91903) and daughter Irene Joliot Curie (1935)

First woman Nobel prize winner for peace
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner (1905)

First woman Nobel Prize winner for literature
Selma Ottila Lovisa Lagerlof (1909)

First woman from India to win a Nobel Prize
Mother Teresa, Peace Prize (1979)

First American woman to win the Nobel prize for peace
Jane Addams, social worker (1931)

First Black woman to win the Nobel prize for literature
Toni Morrison (1993)

First Muslim woman to win the Nobel prize
Shrine Ebadi (2003)

First Black woman to win a Pulitzer prize
Gwendolyn Brooks (1950)

Woman selected as time magazine’s “Man of the Year”
Wallis Warfield Simpson (1936)

First Black woman to win an Oscar for best actress
Halle Berry (2002)

First India woman to win a Pulitzer Prize
Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

First woman Pulitzer winner for fiction
Edith Wharton, American novelist for “The Age of innocence” (1921)