This is a list of women chemists. It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of chemistry. Their research or application has made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied chemistry.
2009 – Ada E. Yonath - structure & function of the ribosome1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - protein crystallography1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie - artificial radioactivity1911 – Marie Sklodowska-Curie - discovery of radium & poloniumFour women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (listed above), awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the prize in 1911, which was her second Nobel Prize (she also won the prize in physics in 1903, along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel - making her the only woman to be award two Nobel prizes). Her prize in chemistry was for her "discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element." Irene Joliot-Curie, Marie's daughter, became the second woman to be awarded this prize in 1935 for her discovery of artificial radioactivity. Dorothy Hodgkin won the prize in 1964 for the development of protein crystallography. Among her significant discoveries are the structures of penicillin and vitamin B12. Forty five years later, Ada Yonath shared the prize with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome.
2015 - Xie Yi (Asia-Pacific) - inorganic chemistry2015 - Molly S. Shoichet (North America) - photochemistry2011 - Faiza Al-Harafi (Africa/Arab States) - electrochemistryVera Bogdanovskaia (1868-1897), one of the first female Russian chemistsIda Freund (1863-1914), first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United KingdomLouise Hammarström (1849–1917), Swedish mineral chemist, first formally trained female Swedish chemistEdith Humphrey (1875–1978), inorganic chemist, probably the first British woman to gain a doctorate in chemistryJulia Lermontova (1846-1919), Russian chemist, first Russian female doctorate in chemistryLaura Linton (1853-1915), American chemist, teacher, & physicianRachel Lloyd (1839-1900) - first American female to earn a doctorate in chemistry, first regularly admitted female member of the American Chemical Society, studied sugar beetsMuriel Wheldale Onslow (1880–1932), British biochemistMarie Pasteur (1826–1910), French chemist and bacteriologistMary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), American chemistAgnes Pockels (1862-1935), German chemistVera Popova (1867–1896), Russian chemistAnna Sundström (1785–1871), Swedish chemistEllen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), American industrial and environmental chemistAnna Volkova (1800–1876), Russian chemistNadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (d. 1914), Russian chemistBarbara Askins (1939-), American chemistAlice Ball (1892-1916), American chemistAstrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish chemistMaria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist (pioneer in radiology, discovery of polonium and radium), Nobel prize in physics 1903 and Nobel prize in chemistry 1911Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 for drug development)Rosalind Franklin (1920–1957), British physical chemist and crystallographerEllen Gleditsch (1879–1968), Norwegian radiochemistAnna J. Harrison (1912–1998), American organic chemistDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), British crystallographer, Nobel prize in chemistry 1964Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), German chemistIrène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935Stephanie Kwolek (1923–), American chemist, inventor of KevlarKathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), British crystallographerElizabeth Moran (? - ), British chemist and public analystMaud Menten (1879–1960), Canadian biochemistEva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemistDarshan Ranganathan (1941-2001), Indian organic chemistMildred Rebstock (1919-2011), American pharmaceutical chemistSibyl Martha Rock (1909 – 1981), American pioneer in mass spectrometry and computingElizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981), Hungarian (naturalized American) nuclear chemist and polonium expertPatsy Sherman (1930-2008), American chemist, co-inventor of ScotchgardMargaret Stanley, British virologistIda Noddack Tacke (1896–1978), German chemist and physicistJean Thomas, British biochemist (chromatin)Jean Youatt - Australian chemist, biochemist, microbiologistAda Yonath (1939–), Israeli crystallographer, Nobel prize in Chemistry 2009Glaci Zancan (1935-2007), Brazilian biochemist, president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of the Science (SBPC) from 1999-2003 
