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Donna Strickland has won the Nobel Prize in Physics. She is the first woman in 55 years and the third woman ever to win the prize in this field. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Physics Nobel in 1903. Maria Goeppert-Mayer earned the prize in 1963. Fifty-nine-year-old Strickland shares this year’s prize with Arthur […]

Jessica Wade is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics at the Imperial College London. She is also on the young women’s board of Wise, a UK-based organisation which enables people in business, industry and education to increase the participation, contribution and success of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Also […]