translated from Spanish: Donna Strickland is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics

DPA 09:29 before that she had been granted only to Marie Curie, in 1903, and to Maria Goeppert-Mayer, in 1963.

The Canadian Donna Strickland today became the third woman to get the Nobel Prize in physics due to advances in laser technology. Before it only had granted in 1903, Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, in 1963. “I thought that there should have been more,” said Strickland today on this issue. “But me being honored to be one of those women.” “We must celebrate the physical women because they are ahi¬,” he added in a press conference call with the press present at the Academy Royal Swedish of the sciences in Stockholm. Last year none of the Nobel in scientific categories was for a woman. Counting with Strickland, only have been awarded with Nobel 18 women for their scientific work. Twelve of them succeeded since 1981. Marie Curie received the award on two occasions: in addition to the one for Physics in 1903, 1911 succeeded in chemistry. But it was about to run out of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity based on research which she initiated and developed together with her husband, Pierre Curie. Only the insistence of the latter got that also Marie was awarded. The daughter of Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935.

Original source in Spanish