2023-10-09 11:13:43
Katalin Karik, awarded the LOral-UNESCO Prize For Women in Science in
The professors Katalin Karikawarded the LOral-UNESCO For Women in Science award in 2022, and Anne L’Huillier, awarded the LOral-UNESCO For Women in Science prize in 2011, received this week the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physics, respectively. Professor of Biochemistry, Katalin Karik, was awarded for her work, which allowed the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19, while Professor of Atomic Physics, Anne L’Huillier, was recognized for her experimental methods, which generate attosecond light pulses for the study of electronic dynamics in matter.
From the L’Oral Foundation we celebrate this historic decision and we want to send our most sincere congratulations to professors Katalin Karik and Anne L’Huillier. The coming years will be crucial for the future of humanity and, to face the challenges that await us, society will need the talent of both women and men. Today’s young researchers must be able to become tomorrow’s Nobel Prize winners without obstacles and without differences in treatment, says Alexandra Palt, executive director of the L’Oral Foundation.
Currently, women continue to be underrepresented in scientific research: they make up only 33.3% of researchers worldwide. In addition, they find it difficult to develop their careers and obtain the recognition they deserve. Since the creation of the Nobel Prizes in 1901, a total of 640 scientists have been awarded for their work in Physics, Chemistry or Medicine and, of them, only 26 have been women.
The Nobel Prize awarded this week to Katalin Karik and Anne L’Huillier brings to seven the number of recipients of the LOral-UNESCO For Women in Science prize who have received this distinction, after Christiane Nsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995) , Ada Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009), Elizabeth H. Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009), Emmanuelle Charpentier (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020) and Jennifer A. Doudna (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020).
Anne L’Huillier, awarded the LOral-UNESCO Prize For Women in Science in
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