After 55 years women's Nobel Prize in Physics

Prof. Donna Strickland

A woman who received the Nobel Prize for the first time in 55 years.

He is Associate Professor Donna Strickland, University of Ontario's University of Waterloo.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the names of three scientists who won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday. Strickland has taken the place among them.

The other two are Arthur Ashkin of the United States, Rezard Muru of France.

In the study of laser, this year, the Nobel Prize was awarded for their substance for innovative innovation.

After 55 years, Nobel laureate named Stirland as the third woman in the history of the Nobel Prize.

Earlier, in 1903 Marie Curie as the first woman and Maria Gopert-Mayer of German herbal physicist Maria Gopert-Mayer in 1963 received the Nobel Prize for substance.

And in the last three years, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in the category, Strickland.

Half of the 90 million Swedish cronors will get Ashkina. And the other half share Muru and Strickland.

The award will be officially awarded to them in Stockholm's capital Stockholm on December 10.

"Obviously, women physicists must celebrate this victory," Strichland said at a news conference after receiving the news of the Nobel victory. Because we are there again and hope that with time, female physicists will increase the winning rate of Nobel. "

Men's Nobel Prize wins are much higher than women, especially in substances.