Donna Strickland, a laser researcher in Canada, is one of the co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Today marks the first day in my lifetime that there’s been a living recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics who is a woman-Donna Strickland. Although, her university hasn’t promoted her to full professor and she didn’t have a Wikipedia page until ~2 hours ago.

— Dr. Jamie R Lomax (@jrlomax) October 2, 2018