The award of the Nobel economics prize to Elinor Ostrom brings the number of female laureates in 2009 to five. That easily breaks the previous record of three women winners in 2004.
In addition to Prof Ostrom, this year's laureates include Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider in medicine; Ada Yonath in chemistry; and Herta Müller in literature.
“What fabulous role models to affirm that we can achieve great things and be noticed and celebrated for them, at the highest levels,” said Kathy Sykes, professor of public understanding of science at Bristol University in the UK.
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