{"id":2912,"date":"2018-10-02T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:30:57","slug":"first-woman-physics-nobel-winner-in-55-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2018\/10\/02\/first-woman-physics-nobel-winner-in-55-years\/","title":{"rendered":"First woman Physics Nobel winner in 55 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/1832D\/production\/_103671199_strickland5.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Strickland\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Strickland, from Canada, is only the third woman winner of the award, along with Marie Curie, who won in 1903, and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who was awarded the prize in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Strickland shares this year&#8217;s prize with Arthur Ashkin, from the US, and Gerard Mourou, from France.<\/p>\n<p>It recognises their discoveries in the field of laser physics.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-45655151\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years. Donna Strickland, from Canada, is only the third woman winner of the award, along with Marie Curie, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}