This paper contemplates the scientific contributions of the seven winners, from the creation of the Nobel Prize to the year 2020. The laureates are Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Ada Yonath, Frances Hamilton Arnold, Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier, and Jennifer Anne Doudna. In 112th editions of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, there were 186 awards, where only seven winners were women, an amount less than 4% of the total, which makes clear the low female representation. Marie was the pioneer, being the first woman to win, alone, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes, and the only person awarded in two distinct scientific areas: Chemistry and Physics. Only Marie and Dorothy received the award alone, Irène, Ada and Frances shared the award with men, and Emmanuelle and Jennifer became the first pair of women to share a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There is an evident under-representation of women in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but this should not be a reason not to remember and celebrate the trajectory of these brilliant scientists, who must be present in training courses in scientific areas, as well as in Basic Education schools.

Abstract Aim: To compare muscular and cardiorespiratory parameters between Brazilian professional futsal athletes from different competitive levels (national versus regional). A secondary aim was to explore the correlation of physical fitness variables between both competitive levels. Methods: Twenty-two futsal players (24.7 ± 3.7 years), 11 from a regional team and 11 from a national team, were evaluated with countermovement jump test (lower limbs muscle power), square test (the speed with change direction), RSSA (anaerobic power), and YOYOIR1 (aerobic power). Tests were performed in the middle of the season for both teams. Results: The speed with change direction (p = 0.001) and mean anaerobic power (p = 0.04) were higher for national than the regional players. Sprint performance decreased similarly for national and regional level players (p < 0.001), but the latter had poorer performance (p = 0.044). From the fourth sprint on, sprints for the national level players were slower than the first three, while for the regional level players, each sprint speed was slower than the subsequent. A significant correlation was found between anaerobic power with jump height (r = −0.50; p = 0.01), speed with change direction (r=0.65; p = 0.001) and distance covered in the YOYOIR1 (r = −0.54; p = 0.01). Conclusion: National-level athletes were more agile and presented a higher mean anaerobic power than regional ones. Moreover, national-level athletes presented better performance along with repeated sprint tests, maintaining this performance for a longer time during the test.