15 minutes agoNobel Prize for physics, for the first time in 55 years, wins a woman
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)For the first time in 55 years, the Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to a woman. Along with two other scholars, Donna Strickland was praised for the work done in discovering a laser intervention for biological studies. Donna Strickland, from Canada, is only the third winning woman of the prize, together [...]
For the first time in 55 years, the Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to a woman. Along with two other scholars, Donna Strickland was praised for the work done in discovering a laser intervention for biological studies.
Donna Strickland, from Canada, is only the third winning woman of the prize, along with Marie Curie, who received the prestigious award in 1903, and Maria Goeppot-Mayer, who was awarded the award in 1963.
Strickland shares this year's award with Arthur Ashkin, from the US, and Gerard Mowrou, from France. They received appreciation for their findings in the field of laser physics.
Ashkin developed a laser technique described as optical shocks used to study biological systems.
Mowrou and Strickland discovered a way to generate high intensity and very short laser impulses, which have a variety of applications.
One of these is in laser surgery. The price is worth a total of nine million Swedish corals, about $1m.
Responding to her triumph, Strickland, from Waterloo University in Canada, said: “First of all, you have to think it's crazy, because that was my first thought. And you'll always ask if it's true”.
In the end, she thanked her two associates and stressed that it is fantastic that their work is recognised and rewarded.
