What it Takes to Win a Nobel Prize

When we crunched the numbers a couple years back, we found that out of 881 individuals who won any of the Nobel Prizes between 1901 and 2016, only 48 were women. Even with this year’s wins, the laureates chosen in recent decades have done little to advance that cause, or to improve equally stark problems with people of color winning the awards.

By Victoria Jaggard, SCIENCE executive editor

(Many thanks to Alexandra V. for sharing)