Female Citation laureates
| Year | Field | Portrait | Citation Laureate | Nationality | Motivations | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 [2] | Physics |  | Vera Rubin (1928–2016) |  United States | "for her pioneering research indicating the existence of dark matter in the universe." | Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 2009 [3] | Physiology or Medicine |  | Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948) |  Australia United States | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases." (selected with Jack W. Szostak) | University of California, San Francisco |
 | Carol W. Greider (born 1961) | United States | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | |||
| Chemistry |  | Jacqueline Barton (born 1952) | United States | "for their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA." (selected with Bernd Giese and Gary Schuster) | California Institute of Technology | |
| 2011 [4] | Economic Sciences |  | Anne Krueger (born 1934) | United States | "for their description of rent-seeking behavior and its implications." (selected with Gordon Tullock) | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2012 [5] | Physics |  | Lene Hau (born 1959) |  Denmark | "for the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)." (selected with Stephen E. Harris) | Harvard University |
| 2015 [6] |  | Deborah S. Jin (1968–2016) | United States | "for pioneering research on atomic gases at ultra-cold temperatures and the creation of the first fermionic condensate." | University of Colorado | |
| Chemistry |  | Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966) | United States | "for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry." | ||
 | Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968) |  France | "for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing." | |||
 | Jennifer Doudna (born 1964) | United States | ||||
| 2016 [7] | Physiology or Medicine |  | Arlene Sharpe (born 1953) | United States | "for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy." (selected with Gordon J. Freeman and Tasuku Honjo) | |
| 2017 [8] |  | Yuan Chang (born 1959) |  Taiwan United States | "for their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)." (selected with husband Patrick S. Moore) | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | |
| 2018 [9] | Physics |  | Sandra Faber (born 1944) | United States | "for pioneering methods to determine the age, size and distance of galaxies and for other contributions to cosmology." | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Chemistry |  | JoAnne Stubbe (born 1946) | United States | "for her discovery that ribonucleotide reductases transform ribonucleotides into deoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2019 [10] | Physiology or Medicine |  | Philippa Marrack (born 1945) |  United Kingdom | "for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus." (selected with husband John Kappler) | National Jewish Health |
| Economic Sciences | | Katarina Juselius (born 1943) |  Finland Denmark | "for contributions to econometrics and cointegration analysis." (selected with husband Søren Johansen) | University of Copenhagen | |
| 2020 [11] | Physiology or Medicine |  | Pamela J. Bjorkman (born 1956) | United States | "for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." | California Institute of Technology |
 | Huda Zoghbi (born 1954) |  Lebanon United States | "for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome." | |||
| Economic Sciences |  | Claudia Goldin (born 1946) | United States | "for contributions to labor economics, especially her analysis of women and the gender pay gap." | Harvard University | |
| 2021 [12] |  | Carmen Reinhart (born 1955) |  Cuba United States | "for contributions to international macroeconomics and insights on global debt and financial crises." | Harvard Kennedy School | |
| 2022 [13] | Physiology or Medicine |  | Virginia Man-Yee Lee (born 1945) |  China United States | "for the identification of TDP-43, a pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases." (selected with Masato Hasegawa) | University of Pennsylvania |
 | Mary-Claire King (born 1946) | United States | "for demonstrating inherited susceptibility for breast and ovarian cancer and discovering the role played by mutations of the BRCA1 gene." | University of Washington | ||
| Chemistry |  | Zhenan Bao (born 1970) | China United States | "for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'." | Stanford University | |
 | Bonnie Bassler (born 1962) | United States | "for research on regulation of gene expression in bacteria through quorum sensing, a chemical communication system." (selected with Everett Peter Greenberg) | |||
| 2023 [14] | Physics |  | Sharon Glotzer (born 1967) | United States | "for demonstrating the role of entropy in the self-assembly of matter and for introducing strategies to control the assembly process to engineer new materials." | University of Michigan |
| Chemistry | | Karen L. Wooley (born 1972) | United States | "for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods." (selected with Vladimir Torchilin and Kazunori Kataoka) | Texas A&M University | |
| 2024 [15] | Physiology or Medicine | | Helen Hobbs (born 1952) | United States | "for research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases." (selected with Jonathan C. Cohen) | |
 | Ann Graybiel (born 1942) | United States | "for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." (selected with Okihide Hikosaka and Wolfram Schultz) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Economic Sciences |  | Janet Currie (born 1957) |  Canada United States | "for pioneering economic analysis of child development." | Princeton University | |
| 2025 [16] | Physiology or Medicine | | Andrea Ablasser (born 1983) |  Germany | "for elucidating the cGAS-STING pathway, a fundamental mechanism of innate immunity." (selected with Glen N. Barber and Zhijian Chen) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Physics | | Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954) |  Belgium United States | "for advancing wavelet theory, a revolution in mathematics and physics with practical applications including image processing." (selected with Stéphane Mallat and Yves Meyer) | Duke University | |
| | Ewine van Dishoeck (born 1955) |  Netherlands | "for pioneering contributions to astrochemistry revealing interstellar molecular clouds and their role in star and planet formation." | |||
| Economic Sciences | | Marianne Bertrand (born 1970) | Belgium | "for joint research on racial discrimination, corporate governance, and other aspects of labor economics determined by psychology and culture." (selected with Sendhil Mullainathan) | University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
