Strickland 1st woman to win Physics Nobel in 55 yrs, overall 3rd
Canadian physicist Donna Strickland on Tuesday became the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. She is only the third female Physics Laureate after German-born physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Poland-born scientist Marie Curie, who won in 1903 for discovering radium and polonium. "We need to celebrate women physicists because they're out there," said Strickland.