First Woman To Win Economics Nobel

Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in economics for her analysis of economic governance.

Co-winner Oliver Williamson made for 11 American Nobel winners out of 13.

[http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/12/nobel.economics/index.html]

You Go, Girl(s).

Elizabeth W. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak received the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on telomeres.

This marks the first time two women have shared a Nobel prize in science.