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A Banner Year for Female Laureates

With the announcement this morning that Indiana University's Elinor Ostrom had won the Nobel Prize in Economics—the first women to do so in the prize's 40-year-history—the tally of 2009 women laureates rises to five. Since the program began in 1901, only 40 women total have won Nobels. Ostrom doesn't cut quite as striking a figure as DoubleX's new office style icon, Herta Mueller, but this photo fills my Monday-deadened heart with happiness ... (Read more in DoubleX.)