Nobel Prize for Physics won by a woman for first time in 55 years

The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to a woman in 2018 for the first time in 55 years.



Donna Strickland from Canada is the third woman in history to win the award, along with Marie Curie, who won in 1903, and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who won the 1963 award.



The author . Strickland shares the prize of the year with Arthur Ashkin of the United States and Gerard Mourou of France.

Dr. Strickland said in a phone call at the press conference:

We should celebrate female physicists because we hope you move faster over time.

I am honored to be one of these women.

The announcement that a woman has been awarded the Physics Prize comes in a conversation the day after Italian researcher Professor Alessandro Strumia hired CERN to say that "men invented and built physics".