The 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics was given to a woman for the second time. Name the first woman who had earlier been awarded this prize.

1. A

   Esther Duflo

   (a) Esther Duflo. She is the 2019 co-winner (with Banerjee and Kremer)—the second woman, not the first.

2. B

   Gerty Theresa Cori

   (b) Gerty Theresa Cori. Nobel in Physiology or Medicine (1947), not Economics.

3. C

   Maria Goeppert

   (c) Maria Goeppert. Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel in Physics (1963), not Economics.

4. D

   Elinor Ostrom

   (d) Elinor Ostrom. First woman to win the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (2009, with Oliver Williamson), for commons governance. That is the official key.

Summary. Official key is (d) Elinor Ostrom. First woman Economics Nobel (2009). Duflo is 2019 (second woman). Cori and Goeppert Mayer are science Nobels. Honour the stored letter (d).