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    Female Nobel Winners Set New Record

    Four women — Herta Mueller for Literature, Ada Yonath for Chemistry, and Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider for Medicine — have received Nobel Prizes this year, a new record. Of more than 800 Nobel winners, 39 have been women. [Independent]


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