Canadian Scientist Donna Strickland has become the first woman to win the Nobel Physics Prize in 55 years for her pioneering work on laser pulses.
Of the 112 physics prizes the Nobel committee has awarded since 1901, the only women winners before Strickland were Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963.
Rosin Owens, biochemical engineer at University of Cambridge, said that while historically it’s true fewer women than men work in research, the scientific community needs to wake up the field's changing demographics.