2009: Women rule as Nobel winners
The shared Nobel economics prize for Elinor Ostrom of the US Monday further underscored that 2009 was a record-year for women prize winners, with five of them taking the coveted honour home.
ELINOR OSTROM of United States has become the first woman to win the 2009 Nobel Economics Prize. She shares the honour with Oliver Williamson, also from the US. They got the award for their work on the organisation of cooperation in economic governance. Ostrom says she was in shock over being the first woman to clinch the honour. Her shared Nobel honour has underscored that 2009 is a record-year for women prize winners.
Ostrom, of Indiana University in Bloomington, became the first woman to win a Nobel prize for economics. The economics prize - first awarded in 1969 - was not in the original will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, who endowed the awards.
Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany became the fourth woman winner on Thursday, when she was named literature laureate.
The Nobel week had opened with Elisabeth H Blackburn and Carol W Greider, both of the US, named co-winners of the medicine prize.
Ada E Yonath of Israel then shared the chemistry prize before Mueller was named Thursday.
In 2004, three women won Nobel prizes - Linda B Buck of US for medicine, Elfriede Jelinek of Austria for literature, and Wangari Maathai of Kenya for peace.
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