Abel Prize for #maths awarded to woman for first time
▻https://phys.org/news/2019-03-abel-prize-maths-awarded-woman.html
Of the 607 Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine between 1901 and 2018, only 19 women were among the awardees, according to the Nobel Prize website. Marie Curie won twice, once for physics and another time for chemistry.
Only one woman has won the other major international mathematics prize—the Fields Medal—Maryam Mirzakhani of Iran in 2014. She died in 2017.