Women in physics? UW Nobel winner Donna Strickland says times have changed

"Women have come a long way,"saidDonna Strickland, who won a Nobel prize Tuesday for work on lasers.

• Canadian among trio awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences onsaid half the nearly $1.29-millionprizegoes to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, and the other half will be shared by Strickland andGrard Mourou.

Strickland is the first female Nobel laureate to be named in three years. Sheis only the third woman to winin physics.

Polish-French physicistMarie Curie earned the award in 1903, and German-born Americantheoretical physicistMaria Goeppert Mayer won it in 1963.

Strickland talked about GoeppertMayer and the struggle for recognition women in science have faced.

How things have changed for women in science

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Canadian Nobel laureate Donna Strickland talks about Maria Goeppert Mayer, the last woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, in 1963